It will speak to you and it will stay with you for a very long time after you’ve seen it.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 30, 2023

What elevates A Dark Place among other somber whodunits is our unsung hero's conviction for the truth.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 20, 2023

If the movie doesnt make your palms sweat, Andrew Scott probably will.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 20, 2022

[Andrew] Scott here fascinates as a vulnerable yet remarkably resilient odd duck.

| Mar 24, 2020

It's a competently made film that retains your attention for the 85-minute runtime, but you are left to only imagine how good it could've been fuelled by better material.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 6, 2020

People fear the unknown and automatically don't trust it, however in film, we can usually turn this around and give the hero his moment, even if Donnie doesn't get that.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2020

If it had simply lived in its mystery... than I think it would have been a more powerful movie.

| Sep 27, 2019

The film, alas, despite [Andrew Scott's] best efforts, is dramatically inert and riddled with plot holes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 22, 2019

The film needed more complication, more plot, and more of a sense of why this character in particular finds himself at the centre of it. As it is, you wish him out of harm's way more than you hope he will solve the case.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 22, 2019

It's the chemistry between Scott and his female co-stars that makes Steel Country worth a look.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 21, 2019

Scott is the most persuasive element in a film that is atmospherically photographed by Marcel Zyskind but let down by a clueless screenplay which borders, at times, on the risible.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 21, 2019

Donny Devlin, a socially awkward garbage collector in a Pennsylvanian backwater, could have been a great Scott character if the writing and direction were more up to snuff.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 18, 2019

Steel Country is a watchable, well-acted thriller, but it's hard to shake the feeling that something is missing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 18, 2019

Steel Country's ambition often exceeds its grasp, but is valiant in its attempts to confront societal issues through a solid mystery plot - even if Andrew Scott's performance threatens to unbalance it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 18, 2019

This is a perfectly decent premise for a procedural thriller and Scott does his best to sell it. But some of the plot turns are preposterous and gibberingly ridiculous.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 18, 2019

A murder mystery that's more about the investigator than the investigation, this character-driven thriller never quite wraps its convoluted parts into a cohesive whole.

| Apr 12, 2019

"A Dark Place" is earnest enough, but it comes across as phony. It's hard to do a "local color" drama when everyone's from out of town.

| Apr 12, 2019

A conventional murder mystery with an unconventional lead character.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 12, 2019

its strong sense of time and place feeds the underlying mystery and turns it into something more than a simple whodunit

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 12, 2019

A Dark Place is a compelling neo-noir that thumbs its nose at the new American Right. But, more importantly and more powerfully, it's an exploration of victimhood and agency.

| Apr 11, 2019