Dark Places

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Dark Places

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2015

1h 43m

Mystery & Thriller

Crime

Drama

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A woman (Charlize Theron) confronts traumatic, childhood memories of the murder of her mother and two sisters when she investigates the possibility that her brother (Corey Stoll) is innocent of the crime.

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Critics Consensus

Dark Places has a strong cast and bestselling source material, but none of it adds up to more than a mediocre thriller that gets tripped up on its own twists.

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Mark Kermode

Observer (UK)

Jan 24, 2016

2/5

Paquet-Brenner invests the split-time action with some brooding menace and the cinematographer, Barry Ackroyd, does his best to lend some urgency, even as things spiral from suspense into outright silliness.

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Geoffrey Macnab

Independent (UK)

Jan 22, 2016

2/5

The film, overall, is fatally uncertain of its identity - never quite certain whether it's a gruesome murder-mystery out to shock us or a heavy, character-based drama about a family torn apart.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Jan 21, 2016

2/5

All in all, its contrivances might have been indulged more satisfyingly in a TV miniseries.

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Matt Oakes

Silver Screen Riot

Oct 14, 2026

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A hodgepodge of movie-like parts that fail to ever click, 'Dark Places' is a monumental ball-drop on the part of writer/director Gilles Paquet-Brenner.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

May 29, 2022

2/4

The material plays like a common potboiler mystery with predictable twists and turns. That such weighty subject matter has been reduced to such banality is a tale of true crime itself.

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Mikel Zorrilla

Espinof

Apr 15, 2020

'Dark Places' is a complete waste of time that wastes Theron, Moretz and the rest of the cast to give us a lazy thriller. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Synopsis

A woman (Charlize Theron) confronts traumatic, childhood memories of the murder of her mother and two sisters when she investigates the possibility that her brother (Corey Stoll) is innocent of the crime.

Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Producer: Azim Bolkiah, A.J. Dix, Matt Jackson, Matthew Rhodes, Beth Kono
Screenwriter: Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Distributor: A24
Production Co: Exclusive Media Group, Mandalay Pictures, Cuatro Plus Films, Denver and Delilah Productions, Source Investments B.V.
Rating: R (Language|Drug Use|Sexual Contact|Some Disturbing Violence)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 7, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 5, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $195.5K
Runtime: 1h 43m

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