Dark Places
25 years after testifying against her brother as the person responsible for massacring her entire family, a haunted woman is approached by a secret society that specializes in complex, unsolved cases. Libby Day was only seven years old when her family was brutally murdered in their rural Kansas farmhouse. Twenty-five years later, she agrees to revisit the crime and uncovers the wrenching truths that led up to that tragic night.
3 March 1968, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
15 June 2004, New York City, New York, USA
18 October 1984, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
9 March 1984, Tyler, Texas, USA
11 November 1996, Elkhart, Texas, USA
2 May 1989, Hammond, Louisiana, USA
17 January 1968, Paterson, New Jersey, USA
4 January 2000, North Carolina, USA
30 September 1967, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada
17 October 1990, Hutto, Texas, USA
5 July 1947, Amherst, Texas, USA
11 July 1964, Laurel, Maryland, USA
March 08, 2016
Based on another page-turner by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn, mystery thriller Dark Places can't match its predecessor for throat-grabbing suspense.
August 14, 2015
The third offering from Flynn Dark Places does its best to stir a multitude of emotions within us, but in doing so, the film feels contrived and hurried.
August 07, 2015
Each flashback or revelatory conversation fills in a few more details of the overheated story without giving us a reason to care about it in the first place.
January 24, 2016
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.
April 06, 2016
Dark Places has suggestions of a moody true-crime drama ... But languid pacing, poor directorial choices and a series of narrative dead ends make watching it a tiresome chore.
January 19, 2016
That unnerving way Flynn has of taking us to dark, deliciously twisted places has been utterly massacred.
August 13, 2015
The surface level generic pleasures of Dark Places and the stellar cast are entertaining enough, even if it doesn't quite stick the landing.
April 05, 2016
Wishy-washy and all-round characterless, Dark Places is neither as dark nor as daring as its synopsis, title and everything else about it suggests. In fact, it's disappointingly vanilla and a film better left off for a small-screen viewing.
August 07, 2015
Director Gilles Paquet-Brenner marshaled a top-tier cast and commanded them to tromp across Flynn's intelligent bestseller like investigators muddying a crime scene.
August 09, 2015
The mystery itself eventually becomes tiresome and shrug-worthy, even as the film breathlessly racks up the revelations.
