Taking liberties with Wilde’s source, Parker’s adaptation accentuates far too much, insisting on special effects and even some contrived suspense in place of the author’s dark drama.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 9, 2023

The whole thing plays like M온라인카지노추천 meets Penguin Literary Classics, all fast editing and high gloss cinematography that just can't compensate for the lack of any emotional resonance.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 29, 2019

...a misfire of nigh epic proportions...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 24, 2011

Like the painting, B-grade horror movie fast loses appeal.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 31, 2010

A dismal mess.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 4, 2010

While Wilde's wit remains firmly entrenched, there's also a gruesome vein of gothic horror, and elements of the original which existed in the subtext or were merely hinted at are brought graphically into the open.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 24, 2010

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| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 26, 2010

If it was Oscar Wilde who said that experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes, then this Dorian Gray is quite an experience!

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 12, 2009

This uneasy mixture of horror and elegant wit, which worked so well originally, never really catches fire thanks to Parker's undistinguished handling.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 11, 2009

Colin Firth is perfect as the devil's advocate, as this adaptation of 19th century gothic taps into the modern zeitgeist.

| Nov 11, 2009

It's a morality tale told through amorality and the pursuit of pleasures of the flesh

| Nov 6, 2009

There's an edge of psychological horror in director Oliver Parker's third Oscar Wilde story that tells how Ben Barnes' Dorian Gray sells his soul to the devil in return for his youth and beauty

| Nov 6, 2009

By leaving nothing up to the imagination, Parker destroys the very essence of the film.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 24, 2009

An impressive character piece that explores important themes ... as well as embellishing aspects of the original story that have never been fleshed out so elaborately.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 18, 2009

Depravity is better suggested than made explicit when it becomes vulgar, pornographic or comic, and possibly all three.

| Sep 18, 2009

A sturdy piece of heritage horror, as tasteful and handsome as any Brit movie with bustles and frock-coats on its agenda.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 14, 2009

A very respectful retelling and study of man's inherent quest for self-destruction given the removal of personal ramifications.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 11, 2009

Teenagers will love this film. They will love it because there are lots of close-ups of Barnes being done unto or doing unto others. As a vehicle for a rising and undeniably talented star, it hits the spot.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 11, 2009

An ambitious if decidedly uneven interpretation of the last great Gothic horror novel.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 11, 2009

These are interesting ideas, but they would work better if there was more decadence on show earlier on to nail Gray's corruption.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 11, 2009