Storyline
A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.
Directors
Cast
Corey Stoll, Drea de Matteo, Glenn Morshower, Nicholas Hoult, Laura Cayouette, Chloë Grace Moretz, Charlize Theron, Jeff Chase, Christina Hendricks, J. Larose, Tye Sheridan, Andrea Roth, Addy Miller, John F. Daniel, Denise Williamson, Sterling Jerins, Shannon Kook, Sean Bridgers, Dan Hewitt Owens, Gillian Flynn, Jennifer Pierce Mathus, Natalie Precht, Madison McGuire, Richard Gunn, Lori Z. Cordova, Michael Crabtree, Steve Shearer
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Reviews
70
Slouching Theron is absolutely convincing as a self-loathing haunted soul with zero ambition. As the town’s “rich slut,” Chloe Grace Moretz gives yet another pitch-perfect performance. Both actresses elevate the material, making a somewhat far-fetched story both believable and enjoyable.
67
Aside from the A-list cast, there isn’t much to differentiate Dark Places from an especially grim TV movie.
60
This plot-heavy suspense flick loses some of the book’s originality in translation while failing to channel its sense of Midwestern malaise. But it keeps the guessing game going long enough to compensate for some otherwise shallow characterizations, while Theron offers up an earnest and downbeat turn that says a lot with little dialogue
60
As heroines go, it’s refreshing to get one as complex as this: When psychologically scarred female characters do turn up in thrillers, they’re usually little more than shivering victims who set a group of male cops in motion, but here, Libby does her own detective work, while Hendricks lends star power to the flashback scenes.
58
It’s never pushed far enough. Instead, Dark Places just becomes an overstuffed, low-simmer potboiler with too many improbable detours and overly convenient twists.
