It held its premiere at the Warsaw Film Festival on 12 October 2016 with the title True Crimes, and had a limited theatrical release in only a few countries, such as the United States, in 2018.

In the process of trying to prove Kozlov's guilt for the murder, Tadek discovers a building called the 'sex cage' where women are brought to be abused and raped by businessmen.

An article from The Hollywood Reporter published on 29 September 2010 revealed Brett Ratner's company RatPac Entertainment was developing a film named True Crimes with Focus Features.

[6] On 14 May 2015, TheWrap announced that Waltz was replaced with Jim Carrey for Wroblewski and that Miss Violence (2013) director Alexandros Avranas would direct True Crimes; David Gerson, Ewa Puszczynska, and Michael Aguilar were also revealed to be producers.

[8][9] After filming completed, Carrey kept the beard he grew for his role while presenting the 73rd Golden Globe Awards, garnering several Twitter reaction posts.

[18] On 25 January 2018, Jim Carrey announced that the film's title had been changed to Dark Crimes and that the North American theatrical release would likely occur in April.

[35][14] Marshall Lemon, responding to the November 2015 still revelations, wrote Carrey "absolutely looks the part," and "the visual style is also reminiscent of shows like True Detective which transformed actors like Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey into surprising dramatic presences.

The website's critical consensus reads, "Dark Crimes is a rote, unpleasant thriller that fails to parlay its compelling true story and a committed Jim Carrey performance into even modest chills.

Club summarized the film by writing that it replaced the "source material’s appealing elements and characterizations with overcomplicated thriller clichés and humorless prurience.

Club summarized the directing as "leaden and one-note in its attempt to imitate the bleakness of Swedish and Norwegian crime imports in an indifferent Eastern European setting; the sky is always overcast and the characters are all dressed like they’re on their way to a funeral.

"[46] Similarly, The New York Observer panned the "ugly, sterile sets" and described the photography as poor,[48] while SF Weekly called the shot compositions gimmicky,[41] and Oktay Kozak Ege opined that the "aesthetically repetitive" visuals made the tension sequences more unbearable to watch.

[42] In contrast, Consequence of Sound writer Randall Colburn stated that "Avranas' muted, sterile style pops with a few flourishes, mainly in his knack for cultivating a truly unsettling aura around the starkness of the film’s depravity."

"[52] Luke W. Thompson of Forbes applauded the editing and directing for matching the mood of the story,[53] and David Lewis of the San Francisco Chronicle honored its "impressive" production design.

"[54] Colburn explained, "Tadek is a character written to be devoid of charm or humor and, as such, Carrey has no opportunities to draw upon the anxious, springy energy of Man on the Moon or the desperate, aching despair of Eternal Sunshine.

[46][45][54][50] Some critics found Csokas to be the film's best actor:[54] Thompson explained that he "strikes the right balance of legitimate rage and pretentious self-importance that you could imagine youngsters embracing.

"[53] However, Colburn felt that Csokas' "icky vein of cruelty", Gainsbourg's "compelling bloodletting", and Wieckiewicz's "pulp paperback" style contradicted the tone of Carrey's performance, resulting in an "imbalance that serves to sink the film.