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By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 22 Feb 2013

Any quote that uses the adjective 'terrifying' doesn't belong within a billion light years of a lame-ass flick like Dark Skies…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 22 Feb 2013

A smart little chiller, one that can be read as a metaphor for the American family in crisis during tough economic times or merely as a tense…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 22 Feb 2013

Good horror films are imprinted by the fears and anxieties of the day, converting real-life atrocities into abstracted scares; mediocre ones…

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By Clark Collis (94) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 22 Feb 2013

While there are some scares along the way, Stewart foolishly gives away the whole kit and caboodle plot-wise with an opening quotation from…

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By Calum Marsh (242) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Feb 2013

It doesn't take a conspiracy theorist to detect Dark Skies's thinly veiled conservatism, and it doesn't take an undue alarmist to be disturbed…

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By Brent Simon (1,142) for Screen International (2,241) on 22 Feb 2013

[A] generally well orchestrated supernatural mood piece…

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By Sara Stewart (700) for New York Post (6,650) on 22 Feb 2013

Mostly, though, it all ends up feeling like a lost, minor episode of “The X-Files:” A little scary, a little silly and catnip for those…

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By Linda Barnard (586) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 22 Feb 2013

Dark Skies is an alien-abduction thriller where the biggest acts of appropriation involve the lifting of plots from other - and often better - films…

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By Adam Nayman (350) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 22 Feb 2013

The characters are reluctant to believe in the face of overwhelming evidence, mostly because writer-director Scott Stewart doesn’t want to…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 22 Feb 2013

An intensely evocative, absolutely spine-tingling thriller that paints an empathetic portrait of realistically strained modern-day suburban…

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By William Bibbiani (788) for CraveOnline (813) on 22 Feb 2013

Filters the fantastic through the mundane, and finds horror on both sides of the sieve... I could have been more entertained, but I respect it…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 22 Feb 2013

Instead of a slow build, Dark Skies is more of a slow leak…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 22 Feb 2013

Insidious seemed to me to be trying too hard with its frequent loud noises and sudden appearances, but the hushed quality of Dark Skies makes…

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By Perri Nemiroff (375) for Shockya.com (657) on 22 Feb 2013

Likable leads, eerie imagery, and the more creative plot points could be enough to make it a worthy at-home watch, albeit not eradicate the…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 21 Feb 2013

It’s a passably chilling bit of nonsense that builds on the past, the tropes of the genre, and relies on them for the odd jolt and the occasional…

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