Metacritic Movie Ratings
Dark Matter Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 70

  out of 100

  The New York TimesStephen Holden

  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.

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• 50

  out of 100

  VarietyJustin Chang

  Never fully succeeds in burrowing under its protagonist's skin, despite conspicuous effort.

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• 42

  out of 100

  Entertainment Weekly

  Liu Ye is too inexpressive for his role's demands, and the movie doesn't build to his downfall: It just zaps itself there.

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• 40

  out of 100

  Los Angeles Times

  It is easy to see the film as two movies crammed together, neither of them being very good.

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• 30

  out of 100

  Village Voice

  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.

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