Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

An unwieldy combination of film noir and film musical, Dark Streets doesn't manage to be effective on either level.

Full Review | Dec 22, 2008

Dark Streets has atmosphere coming out its ears, but not much going on between them.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 12, 2008

I love musicals, but I'd be hard-pressed to recommend this curiosity.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 12, 2008

A collection of 1950s B-movie mannerisms that would have made for a great parody if only it were capable of laughing at its own hard-boiled absurdity.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 12, 2008

Dark Streets lost me early, real early, like still-adjusting-my-eyes-in-a-dark-theater early: Welcome to the blues, growls the entertainer with the mohawk and the full-length ringmaster gown.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 12, 2008

It's like a high school play version of noir with musical numbers written by the drama teacher. In the end, these streets aren't nearly dark enough.

| Dec 12, 2008

Rachel Samuels' thin, affected jazz-age noir Dark Streets is worse than most, grafting an indifferent series of twists and double-crosses onto a blues-nightclub backdrop that overwhelms the foreground.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Dec 11, 2008

So obsessed with mimicry it's practically a tribute band of a movie.

| Dec 11, 2008

It's a lovingly souped-up incarnation of the film-noir look, contains well-staged and performed musical numbers, and has a lot of cigarettes, tough tootsies, bad guys and shadows. What it doesn't have is a story that pulls us along.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 11, 2008

This charmless fantasy tries to recapture the mix of hot jazz and cold cynicism that lit up Chicago, adding a dash of punk for good measure

| Dec 11, 2008

Feebly mixing film noir and the old-time nightclub musical, Dark Streets could do with illumination in more ways than one.

Full Review | Dec 11, 2008

The flimsy plot -- less a whodunit than an isn't-it-screamingly-obvious-that-that-guy-done-it! -- will have thriller fans singing the blues.

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 10, 2008

Dark Streets may only be a quasi-noir and quasi-musical, but that doesn't stop it from being a wholesale slog.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 7, 2008