This production pudding is so artificial that it is hard to believe any of the characters, save for Gainsbourg's.

| Sep 2, 2020

It's very rare for a film to pretty much have no redeeming features about it, but Dark Crimes is essentially impossible to recommend beyond those who have a morbid curiosity.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 30, 2020

There's not even much novelty in seeing Carrey play so aggressively against type in this oppressively artless slog.

| Original Score: 1.25/5 | Jul 20, 2019

Dark Crimes is a film that doesn't work with a performance that actually works pretty well.

| Aug 26, 2018

Welcome to Dark Crimes, a movie that boldly sets itself a number of obstacles to overcome, beginning with two big ones: the writing and the directing.

| Aug 24, 2018

Carrey shows that he has real dramatic chops, but this is a crime thriller served cold.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 14, 2018

Unfortunately, when you're dealing with Carrey doing a fake Polish accent and NOT trying to be funny, this is something of a mission impossible.

| Jul 31, 2018

The erstwhile Ace Ventura broods like you've never seen before, delivering a performance unlike anything he has ever done. Which isn't to say it's a good one.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 26, 2018

The film's pace never deviates from its hushed, deliberate, anticipatory gaze - it's stuck in thriller-foreplay mode.

| May 23, 2018

This dreary thriller is a real downer. But Jim Carrey proves again that he can do drama as well as comedy.

| May 22, 2018

Carrey commits one hundred and ten percent, fluctuating accent notwithstanding. It's only a matter of time before his newfound artistic intensity will be matched to suitable material to create something special.

| Original Score: 4/10 | May 21, 2018

And to close with a weekend full of choices, "Dark Crimes"... a Polish film with misogynistic scenes, explicit sex and an unforeseen level of abjection. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 21, 2018

The biggest rap on "Dark Crimes" is the pacing. The cadence is mind-numbing.

| Original Score: D | May 21, 2018

The procedural storyline doesn't provide much suspense, nor offer sufficient rationale for emotional investment.

| May 18, 2018

The screenplay teeters between depraved and confusing ("Truth is what you make it. Reality is perception.") Say what?

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 18, 2018

Source material with great dramatic potential. Talented director and screenwriter. Intriguing cast. That's a promising menu - but the end product leaves a sour taste.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 18, 2018

Exploitative Carrey thriller has lots of sexual violence.

| Original Score: 1/5 | 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.

| Original Score: D | May 18, 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.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 18, 2018

That this exercise in vulgarity was made at all is shameful.

| Original Score: 0/4 | May 17, 2018