Dark Shadows Reviews
The Patriot Ledger
There's more than enough here for us older folks - and some younger ones, too - to have us exclaiming, Fangs for the memories.
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| Original Score: B
eFilmCritic.com
It turns into a bit of a mess towards the finish line, but at least it's a fun mess, and if you're looking to Tim Burton for narrative tidiness you must be thinking of another Tim Burton.
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| Original Score: 4/5
CraveOnline
Captures the grand sweep and often ridiculous theatricality of both soap operas and gothic romance.
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| Original Score: 8.5/10
Washington City Paper
Burton deploys the kind of winking, sly humor he knows his leading man can pull off.
Common Sense Media
While Burton should have been comfortable with the story's large-scale passions and soap opera emotions -- as evidenced by movies like Edward Scissorhands -- he seems unwilling to take the risk.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Antagony & Ecstasy
Does not feel as derivative and artificial as most of what [Burton] has done since 2001.
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| Original Score: 6/10
At the Movies (Australia)
It certainly is magnificent to look at. I think where it falters a bit is in the dark romance.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
At the Movies (Australia)
Pitching the film playfully between farce, with a knowing satiric edge, high action and high romance, Dark Shadows is a lot of fun.
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| Original Score: 4/5
The Australian
Certainly delivers the goods on several levels without quite rising to the heights to which it aspires.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Is it obviously a Tim Burton picture? Sure it is. That's what I expect -- and, in fact, what I want -- from a Burton movie.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Tolucan Times
Not that funny, but worth seeing mostly due to Depp's performance.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Movie Talk
As with Pirates, the story often stalls while Depp does his stuff, but his fish-out-of-water vampire is roguish, mannered and a hoot, as you'd expect.. though it's Green's wild-eyed pale-skinned seductress who really sinks her teeth into the film.
Crikey
The jokes seem to have been written, fittingly enough, by the dead.
ColeSmithey.com
"Dark Shadows" is a lot more fun than any of the "Twilight" movies combined.
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| Original Score: B
New England Movies Weekly
This latest collaboration between director Tim Burton and actor Johnny Depp is easily the best thing they've done together since Sweeney Todd.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Real.com
The only resurrecting grace is Depp's now routine, freak pantomime performance ...You will scream with frustration at this ghoulish comedy, that's for sure.
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| Original Score: 3/5
The Mercury
Much like pizza and sex, even when a Tim Burton film isn't great, it's still pretty good, it's never really "bad".
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| Original Score: 3/5
Moviedex
Perhaps if every Hollywood film featured the grand yet gloomy decadency of a Burton production, I'd be more inclined to get caught up on where his films go wrong. But they don't, so I won't.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Cinemalogue.com
This amusing trifle has some modest rewards for those willing to accept it simply as a breezy diversion.
