True Crimes (Dark Crimes)
A murder investigation of a slain business man turns to clues found in an author's book about an eerily similar crime. Based on the 2008 article 'True Crimes - A postmodern murder mystery' by David Grann.
30 June 1967, Nowa Ruda, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
30 November 1984, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
30 June 1966, Invercargill, New Zealand
4 August 1969, Botosani, Romania
17 May 1972, Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
21 July 1971, London, England, UK
27 September 1971, Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland
May 18, 2018
"Dark Crimes" has Carrey, who seems like he's auditioning for an HBO procedural, but the rest of the movie is motionless when it isn't baffling.
May 17, 2018
Dark Crimes is dank and dreary and no fun...
May 16, 2018
Carrey's quietly exacting, uncharacteristic performance, though not qualifying as a saving grace, hints at some promising new career directions in the same manner Robin Williams successfully tapped a darker side with "One Hour Photo."
May 17, 2018
[S]tumbles at every turn.
May 14, 2018
The cast is game, the production design is impressive and a few surprises await - but even as things heat up, the film somehow remains cold.
May 17, 2018
A good story gets stuck in a puddle of mood in "Dark Crimes," a film that strays from its fascinating source - a real-life murder case - into a less successful attempt at noir.
May 11, 2018
A movie that is not just muddled in the conventional ways but down to its core.
May 16, 2018
A few words should be said about Carrey's performance: It may be the worst dramatic acting of his career, a charmless cartoon of self-repression.
May 17, 2018
[W]e're trying to figure out basic things, like who these characters are, what they're doing ... and why we're watching something so lifeless.
May 16, 2018
While Jim Carrey delivers a grimly serious performance, the film itself is exploitative, inept and often incoherent.
May 17, 2018
That this exercise in vulgarity was made at all is shameful.
May 17, 2018
A lurid, boring mess.
