Like Batman, Dick Tracy and The Crow, The Shadow is more of a mood than an interesting yarn... But the film possesses a warmth and humor missing from the others.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2024

What makes Baldwin's performance, and the film, so enjoyable is the refreshing absence of angst. Cranston Is no tortured hero... He's a good guy and he knows it, and he's not afraid to enjoy the high life when he's not fighting crime.

| May 8, 2023

The Shadow seeks to be another Batman. It is more likely to be another Doc Savage or Flash Gordon - both lackluster attempts to translate past pulp heroes into big-screen money.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 25, 2022

For the most part, the film is simply boring.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Sep 24, 2020

It's a failed attempt to revive a former pulp hero who has been passe for years.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 13, 2020

The grandiose presence of Alec Baldwin manages to give cohesion to this little gem. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 11, 2019

Despite handsome production values and a crackerjack supporting cast, "The Shadow" remains a temperamental trinket that lacks the temerity to truly explore, as its titular hero would say, what evil truly lurks in the hearts of men.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 1, 2014

Very underrated and incredibly entertaining...

| Jun 5, 2013

It's an entertainment that deserved to have become the first of a series.

| Jul 16, 2010

A pleasant, eye-pleasing movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 16, 2010

The movie has all the coherence of a bad acid flashback.

| Original Score: D | Jul 6, 2010

What's on the screen is so tired by now that you've seen it before even if this is your introduction to the Shadow.

| Original Score: C | Sep 23, 2007

It has enough of the innocent exoticism and splendor of silent thrillers to suggest a continuity with the past missing from most other movies; all that's required is a capacity to sit back and dream.

| Apr 25, 2007

Polished to a high surface gloss, but nothing lurks beneath; nothing at all.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 25, 2007

Despite similarities as a vigilante creature of the night, however, the Shadow -- a character that enjoyed its greatest success in radio after being created in pulp novels -- lacks the visceral appeal of Batman and won't strike the same chord.

Full Review | Apr 25, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 25, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 14, 2007

Baldwin's low-key performance lacks charisma, Lone alternates between lip-smacking villainy and camp humour, and Miller is chiefly a clothes-horse for a series of slinky '30s frocks.

| Jun 24, 2006

A triumph of special effects over story (and the effects are now totally dated).

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 10, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 8, 2005