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Posted inFilm Reviews

A Cinematic Crime: Gillian Flynn’s ‘Dark Places’ Flops as a Movie, Wasting Charlize Theron

For the second time within a year or so, a Gillian Flynn novel has been made into a movie. While David Fincher’s Gone Girl was a masterpiece, Dark Places, based on Flynn’s second novel, is bloody awful. Even though Oscar-winner Charlize Theron is its star, Dark Places never rises above the level of a Lifetime […]

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