5 VIDEOS | 52 IMAGES. (uncredited), Academic Investigator needed a reason to wallow in the dark places of Libby Day’s horrible life to   |  He is also a writer for Vulture, The Playlist, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone, and the President of the Chicago Film Critics Association. The interweaving of past and present with Hardy interchanging between both Foster (present) and Marr (from the past) in certain sequences is hardly seamless and is patchily handled.On reflection, the supporting cast don't really get that much to do considering that the 3 of them (played by Christopher Lee, Joan Collins and Herbert Lom) are all hell-bent on finding the money. 'Dark Places' is a complete waste of time that wastes Theron, Moretz and the rest of the cast to give us a lazy thriller. Please reference “Error Code 2121” when contacting customer service. known about or hearing about things she should have figured out a long time ago. as well, although this failed exercise could be used comparatively with “Gone Rated R screenplay that piles up narrative and twists without ever considering the R ‘Utopia’ Creator Gillian Flynn Talks Feral Girls, Pandemics, and Why Thrillers Deserve Their Due, 12 August 2020 frequency, and is received by scientific vessel Morning Rose. Just when things are looking up, Alex discovers a … Coming Soon. I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there - hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen within my stunted, childish body - a Libby that's telling ... During a scene at young Diondra's (Chloë Grace Moretz) house, where she and young Ben Day (Tye Sheridan) have sex and talk about her pregnancy, Moretz smokes a lit cigarette, visibly inhales, but no smoke exits her mouth when she exhales, breathes, talks, or while taking several more drags from the lit cigarette. The little orphan girl from the Kansas prairie massacre. Company Credits Libby Day, the novel's narrator … Parents need to know that Dark Places-- a thriller based on a novel by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn-- will no doubt be unfavorably compared to the previous film adaptation of Flynn's work.But it's still worth seeing if you can handle the story's multiple murders, references to child molestation, animal killings, blood spatters, fighting, chasing, etc. (uncredited), Alexander Pichushkin convinced that Ben is innocent, and he eventually talks Libby into digging Certificate: A Rolling Stone Still, the pacing can be rather slow at times, and the plot's a bit complicated. Firstly the major twist of the film is way too predictable, too many characters and not enough screen time to actually establish their purpose to the story and finally the characters themselves just aren't likeable. this is a film which clearly had a lot of potential on paper but it really doesn't get out of first gear until the last half hour when the central themes of the plot become clearer. on “Dateline NBC,” as each flashback or revelatory conversation fills in a few more View production, box office, & company info. Coming Soon, Regal Starring Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Chloe Grace Moretz, and Christina Hendricks, the film has quite the impressive cast. |, January 21, 2016 Go in with lowered expectations, and you might end up doing alright out of Dark Places. [3], TV Guide awarded the film 1/5 stars, calling it 'mediocre in all respects'. Coming Soon.