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By Teo Bugbee (199) for The New York Times (9,847) on 27 Sep 2017

The performances from the film’s young cast members are uniformly excellent, including Owen Campbell as Zach and Charlie Tahan as Josh…

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By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 26 Sep 2017

Super Dark Times is an unsettling, technically accomplished entry into the recent boom of genre pictures examining losses of innocence through…

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By Ciara Dolan (18) for The Stranger (Seattle, WA) (891) on 26 Sep 2017

Though the final sequence of events is oddly paced and difficult to follow, [Kevin] Phillips succeeds by using the language and logic of teenagers…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 26 Sep 2017

Did the super dark times need to arrive at all…

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By Henry Stewart (71) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Sep 2017

The transformation of a teen into a serial killer isn't credible compared to the portrait of idle suburban adolescence…

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By Scott Beggs (28) for Nerdist (550) on 19 Jul 2017

Super Dark Times is a worthy, tightly realized thriller of young lives that's better when it's thinking deeply than when it builds with stock…

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By Michael Gingold (56) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 15 Jul 2017

The kids aren't all right in an unsettling independent winner…

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By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 04 May 2017

Super Dark Times is a gripping, visceral movie that those of us who grew up in suburbs similar to the one depicted here might experience as…

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By Candice Frederick (452) for Reel Talk Online (378) on 02 May 2017

SUPER DARK TIMES can certainly be commended for its scarily accurate portrayal of young white male angst, its solid performances, and deceptive…

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By Matt Donato (975) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 01 May 2017

Debuts shouldn’t be this tense or composed, yet Super Dark Times is an instantaneous must-see…

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By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 29 Apr 2017

Virtually free from quirk and black humor, the film is an effective, nasty thriller and a rare horror film that provides an emotional investment…

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By Jacob Oller (247) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 20 Apr 2017

Though beautifully shot by Eli Born as '90s ultra-Americana, Super Dark Times never seems sure which way to make us look. Which isn't a good thing…

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By Brad Miska (152) for Bloody Disgusting (327) on 20 Apr 2017

Super Dark Times is that special kind of film that we as genre fans are always desperate to discover, the one that we fall in love with and…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for Indiewire (3,631) on 19 Apr 2017

Shot with the stoic confidence of a capable young director flexing his muscles, Super Dark Times is visceral and gripping throughout, its probing…

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By Fionnuala Halligan (367) for Screen International (2,241) on 15 Mar 2017

Phillips’ collaborators work in harmony with the natural, nuanced acting; credits across the board are stylish and smooth, with lensing a…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 08 Feb 2017

For all its flaws, or rather for all the magnitude of its one massive flaw, it is more sincere than arch, and more earnest, certainly in its…

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By Neil Young (78) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 02 Feb 2017

Strikingly shot, edited and scored, with convincing and vivid performances from a youthful cast, the picture loses its footing in the final…

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By Jay Weissberg (182) for Variety (12,700) on 02 Feb 2017

It’s hard not to appreciate the astute ways the script captures the moment when carefree childhood turns into the loss of innocence…

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