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

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

Some neat formal flourishes from its director Oliver Parker and a truly handsome supporting turn from Colin Firth, this story demands a more versatile and charismatic central player than the powerfully blank Ben Barnes.

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

It has the style of a Hammer shocker from decades ago; Wilde's romance is caricatured, certainly, but the whole thing is socked over with gusto.

| Sep 11, 2009

Beyond mildly risqué bisexual assignations, the filmmaking isn't terribly adventurous, but cinematographer Roger Pratt gives it an inky opulence, and it's quite watchable.

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

Parker directs his version like a kid who, after one too many Haribos, has been let loose with a bumper-pack of poster paints.

Full Review | Sep 11, 2009

It is a fairly good-looking film, but eccentrically cast - Ben Barnes is insufficiently charismatic in the central role - and the real problem is that while it has some effective moments of horror it is, as a drama, peculiarly inert.

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

Parker's staging and direction are hopelessly inert; the orgy scenes are knocked off from Eyes Wide Shut, while the later movement into darkness looks (and sounds) like a cheap slasher movie.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 11, 2009

A flawed but characterful niche thriller, it's one for those who love to feast their eyes on rambling mansions, smoking jackets and dastardly wits.

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

Bad panto with t**s. Firth - all dodgy 'tache and frantic eyebrows - has got the sexual allure of a man who runs a swingers' club in Surbiton. And Ben Barnes is so flat as Dorian, I had to double-check he wasn't playing the painting.

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