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Metascore
42 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanDepp's performance is more than just funny - it's ghoulishly endearing.
- 80Boxoffice MagazinePete HammondBoxoffice MagazinePete HammondIt's a great time at the movies and a wickedly clever cinematic treat.
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt offers wonderful things, but they aren't what's important. It's as if Burton directed at arm's length, unwilling to find juice in the story.
- 60Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfBurton, as usual, is great on atmosphere and comic timing (these are his weirdest moments since Ed Wood), but less so at reining in an overcomplicated plot and dimly lit action scenes.
- 50VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangThis bizarre but weirdly bloodless retro-camp exercise is neither funny nor eerie enough to seduce the uninitiated, and will court bemused reactions at best from the series' still-estimable fan following.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyDark Shadows sinks its teeth half-way into its potentially meaty material but hesitates to go all the way.
- 50Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallTampa Bay TimesSteve PersallDark Shadows manages in two hours what the TV show took six years to do: become irrelevant and remembered only for how sloppy it was.
- 50ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliDark Shadows is a mess, and it's unclear whether its bizarre recipe of comedy, campy horror, and gothic melodrama will satisfy anyone, regardless of their familiarity with the source material.
- 40Village VoiceNick PinkertonVillage VoiceNick Pinkerton"Wood" is still by far Depp and Burton's best collaboration, exhibiting the balance of tone between kitsch parody and zealous fantasy that's missing in Dark Shadows, less a resurrection than a clumsy desecration.
- 40Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzIt seems hollow, somehow false, even by its own campy standards.