With its overstuffed script and uncertain direction, Lay The Favourite is unlikely to change Rebecca Hall’s fortunes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 3, 2024

... A good opportunity to find a filmmaker having fun with his dark dolls, like a child in his favorite toy store. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 27, 2023

Dark Shadows takes the easy way out by lampooning its source material, simplifying its ‘70s setting through parody, and handling most of the characters like comic relief in an overall treatment that’s beneath everyone involved.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 20, 2022

It feels like a movie that had great comedic potential but only gave us a sampling of it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 2022

Despite some issues with the narrative, Dark Shadows rightly leans on its humor, cast and staging to create a largely enjoyable trip to the movies. Burtons style shines, and longtime fans are in for a treat.

| Feb 11, 2022

[Depp's] Barnabas is never that interesting, and similarly the movie struggles for its own purpose. It never finds anything of its own to say, and just ends up flailing around past the occasional fun little bit for two hours

| Jul 14, 2021

Even hardcore Burton apologists will have a difficult time defending Dark Shadows.

| Apr 29, 2021

Based on the gothic television soap opera that ran from 1966 to 1971, Tim Burton's Dark Shadows is an erratic movie without core or conviction.

| Feb 28, 2021

It features too much of Burton's signature proclivities and not enough restraint to allow for a cohesive vision.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 1, 2020

My least favorite Johnny Depp film

| Nov 20, 2020

Dark Shadows isn't going to please everyone. Tim Burton's films never do.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

While this film does seem to mark a turning point towards the positive for Burton, it still lacks that special quality that made his earlier work so remarkable.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 31, 2020

[Tim] Burton could have done so much more with this film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 10, 2019

It's hard to imagine a 1970s without soul, even in Maine, but Dark Shadows pulls it off.

| Sep 18, 2019

You are surrounded by beautiful things to see, but even the biggest thrill rides become perfunctory and when you wake up you barely remember the experience.

| Jul 29, 2019

A bland, mostly unmemorable affair that never commits to being a comedy or a horror film and is instead an odd mix of both that doesn't quite work.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 8, 2019

It's as if we're watching someone else try to mimic a Burton film, and the result pales in comparison to his better work.

| Original Score: C | Apr 12, 2019

At first glance Dark Shadows is fun, but there is simply little story to be had, with a script that relies on just the one joke.

| Feb 28, 2019

Sad to report, the [Tim] Burton opus is an unnecessarily complicated tale involving too many characters, not to mention an unresolved moral conundrum that has us happily rooting for an unapologetic mass serial killer.

| Feb 25, 2019

Dark Shadows is an oddity. Neither scary nor campy, it's another of Burton's tall tales, full of visual beauty and whimsy, with some unexpected emotional notes, but ultimately more style than substance.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 2, 2019