Teenage thriller Super Dark Times is a lot better before the super dark times begin

High school thriller Super Dark Times is a masterful portrait of guilt and friendship: EW review

Owen Campbell and Charlie Tahan star in Kevin Phillips' debut 'Super Dark Times,' a downbeat, 1995-set American indie premiering at the Dutch festival.

The film transcends the limits of its narrow-minded nostalgia because it doesn’t revisit some lost idyll so much as it corrupts one.

In its opening scenes, the moody suspense picture “Super Dark Times” follows a couple of early ’90s suburbanite buds Zach (Owen Campbell) and Josh (Cha...

First-time director Kevin Phillips displays a remarkable gift for evoking a time and place, but loses control when this tale of a teenage friendship shifts f...

Kevin Phillips’s direction and fine acting from the cast elevate this tale centered on two high schoolers coping with tragedy.

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A genre film that has things to say about the world in which we live, its emptiness and the chasm between cause and effect.

The grey gathering gloom that hangs over “Super Dark Times” seeps into your bones. It’s a ’90s teen thriller that has hints of “Stand By Me” and ...

A US indie set in the suburbs calls to mind Stand By Me and mostly bears up well to the comparison

In the new coming-of-age thriller ‘Super Dark Times,’ filmmaker Kevin Phillips channels Stephen King in delivering a super uncompromising look at the dar...

Set in an familiar and ambiguous time and place (mid-90s in anytown USA), Super Dark Times functions as a kind of trojan house until its twist. Delivering ho...

At first it feels like a relief that the ironic, vernacular sensibility evoked by the title (“Oh man, the times were like, super dark”) is little in evid...

Kevin Phillips’ impressive directorial debut offers a Stephen King-inspired coming-of-age tale.

Before shifting abruptly into genre territory, this sensitive coming-of-age story astutely captures a teen’s traumatic loss of innocence.

It’s a stylish and confident debut feature from director Kevin Phillips.

Super Dark Times is a dangerous mix of adolescent tensions and a deadly deed that ignites something much more explosive.