A Dark Place
Front Row Filmed Entertainment | Release Date: April 12, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
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1
Mixed:
6
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
63
Movie NationRoger MooreApr 9, 2019
Donnie is a most unusual character to serve as our tour guide to “A Dark Place.” British character actor Andrew Scott (“Spectre,””Pride” and TV’s Moriarty in “Sherlock”) utterly immerses himself in this “town weirdo” character who becomes obsessed with a little boy on his route who disappears, and then is found drowned in a local creek. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckApr 10, 2019
But it's Scott who fully carries the film, helping us overlook the story's contrivances with his moving and intense performance as a character who is as far removed from Professor Moriarty as you can get. Read full review
60
VarietyDennis HarveyApr 9, 2019
The result is diverting enough, yet ends up more a mildly offbeat time-filler than something memorable. Read full review
50
Film ThreatHunter LanierApr 17, 2019
Screenplays like A Dark Place only get made because they’re familiar. They present intrigue and drama in a way that doesn’t challenge the audience but reinforces their belief of what a movie like this should be. This conformist methodology might make the movie palatable—and marketable—but it doesn’t make it any good. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayApr 12, 2019
A Dark Place is earnest enough, but it comes across as phony. It’s hard to do a “local color” drama when everyone’s from out of town. Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeApr 22, 2019
Unfortunately, Scott is the most persuasive element in a film that is atmospherically photographed by Marcel Zyskind but let down by a clueless screenplay which borders, at times, on the risible. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyApr 18, 2019
It’s a bungled business, making obvious errors of staging. Read full review
20
The GuardianPeter BradshawApr 18, 2019
The Fleabag star’s detailed performance in this missing-child thriller makes its myriad implausibilities all the more dismaying. Read full review
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