Dark Night

Suburban teendom often means killing time, auditioning selves, inhabiting the you that you can pull off for now but also maybe worrying about the you you'll aim for next.

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Tim Sutton offers a non-sensational, highly intellectual cinematic response to the 2012 megaplex shooting in Aurora, Colo.

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Tim Sutton's film often surprises on the micro level, but its broader execution gives reason for pause.

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Director Tim Sutton imagines the hours leading up to a mass shooting in a suburban mall.

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Under its compelling influence, we are lured into feeling that these various lives, marked by vacuity and frustration, are in some way destined to end at the point of a gun — that the murderer and his victims coexist on a continuum of despair. Try telling that to the people of Aurora.

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Dark Night is rigorously framed and edited, but it offers the illusion of complexity rather than the real McCoy.

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Inspired by the 2012 mass shooting at a cinema in Colorado, this gorgeously filmed episodic drama aims to provoke but dissolves into cold and distant tedium.

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There's a scene in "Dark Night" where a young woman sits on a curb with police lights washing over her; a tight closeup of one of her eyeballs makes it seem as if the orb is light from within by red and blue.

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Until its climax, which clearly seeks to be congratulated on its restraint, Dark Night is not much more than an arty bore.

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