Review of Darkness Falls (2020) by Sheila O'malley for RogerEbert.com — 12 Jun 2020
Clichés are already shorthand, so when you shorthand the shorthand, assuming audiences will just take the leap into whatever "reality" you are trying to create, you end up with a cop-thriller like Darkness Falls: a bizarre series of cliché after cliché, with no real work done to fill in the blanks with complexity, nuance, or even basic human reality.
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This review of Darkness Falls (2020) was written by Sheila O'malley and published by RogerEbert.com on 12 Jun 2020.
Darkness Falls has generally received mixed reviews.
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