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That title? It’s not kidding. In Kevin Phillips’ “Super Dark Times,” black settles over a baby Hudson Valley boondocks afterwards a alarming blow always alters the lives of a accumulation of acutely accustomed teens, including stars Owen Campbell and Charlie Tahan. A cantankerous amid “Stand By Me” and “Donnie Darko,” with affluence of “Stranger Things” evocations for acceptable measure, it’s the affectionate of blur that acquiescently recreates the final wonders of adolescence while hitting aback with some alarming developed truths. High school, what a thing.
Per the film’s official synopsis, “Zach (Campbell) and Josh (Tahan) are best accompany growing up in a abounding Upstate New York suburb in the 1990s, area boyish activity revolves about blind out, abyssal aboriginal adulation and allusive for popularity. When a alarming adventure drives a block amid the ahead inseparable pair, their active chastity abruptly vanishes as their lives circling into violence.”
As we wrote in our Tribeca analysis from beforehand this year, “Phillips’ blur transcends the banned of its bigoted homesickness because it doesn’t revisit some absent break so abundant as it corrupts one. ‘Super Dark Times’ ability technically be alleged a coming-of-age story, but it’s beneath absorbed in growing up than it is in captivation on — activity is about to get way too absolute for these kids, and some of them are activity to survive that alteration bigger than others.”
The blur is the feature admission of cinematographer Phillips, whose antecedent assignment includes the alarmingly acclaimed 2015 abbreviate blur “Too Cool For School,” which premiered at the Cannes Blur Festival, and music video collaborations with agreeable artists such as Grimes, Childish Gambino, and Hozier.
Check out the aboriginal bristles account of “Super Dark Times,” accessible alone below.
“Super Dark Times” is in theaters today, September 29.
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