Towards Darkness
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- Synopsis
- First-time director/screenwriter Antonio Negret details the frightening trend of kidnapping in Columbia with this tense tale of a young photographer who is abducted and held for ransom as his desperate parents scramble to raise the money that could ......
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- Starring
- Roberto Urbina, America Ferrera, David Sutcliffe, William Atherton
- Director(s)
- Antonio Negret
- Distributor(s)
- Peace Arch Ent.
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 93 min.
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Variety | Ronnie ScheibAdd Critic to Favorites
A convoluted bilingual thriller about a kidnapping in Colombia, Towards Darkness may be too clever for its own good. Frosh director Antonio Negret intertwines so many disparate characters, each with a flashback-studded backstory, that after a while the exhausted viewer, assaulted by sudden time-jumps, agitated handheld camerawork and tediously protracted suspense, ceases to care.Read the full review
The New York Times | Laura KernAdd Critic to Favorites
Antonio Negret's sloppily executed film plays like a car commercial and a military-recruitment promo.Read the full review
