Dark Matter, with its view of cutthroat politics and competing egos inside a university, is also laudable in its refusal to soft-pedal the viciously petty side of the academic fishbowl.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
The final act of Dark Matter is grim but unconvincing, and the shortfall leaves an ugly, exploitive taste in your mouth.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Gregory Kirschling
Liu Ye is too inexpressive for his role's demands, and the movie doesn't build to his downfall: It just zaps itself there.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
Dark Matter has neither the technical command of an art-house film nor the manufactured intensity of a grade-B thriller, yet it's also too cheap and dirty to feel like a Hollywood-scale drama.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Mark Olsen
It is easy to see the film as two movies crammed together, neither of them being very good.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Nick Pinkerton
First-time filmmaker Shi-Zheng Chen shows little aptitude for accurately transcribing the textures of human interaction; there's not a single credible performance here, not excluding Meryl Streep as a faculty Sinophile, doing that thing where she grinds every line through a gauntlet of tremulous inflections.Read Full Review »
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