Dark City deftly creates a world both foreign and familiar at the same time to match the clouded tone of its story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 7, 2024

This is an exceptionally stylish-looking production driving a story with grand aspirations, and though flawed, like the majority of Proyas’ work, it achieves most of what it sets out to do.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 22, 2023

The movie's design is its only redeeming feature. This is one movie which seems to have been made almost exclusively for members of a Dungeons & Dragons fan club.

| Original Score: C | Jan 19, 2023

The other major item of note in the film is its visual effects. From a giant clock to a city changing before our eyes, Dark City is one of the most spectacular visual effects feats to come out in recent memory.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 18, 2023

Dark City is nearly a nightmare-fueled neo-noir masterpiece. It’s surreal, it’s odd, but it’s also remarkably creative and deserves to be seen.

| Dec 10, 2022

Real humanists may have misgivings.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 16, 2022

Trying for a modernized film noir mixed with gothic science-fiction, the film is a striking blend of genres and motifs.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 11, 2020

Dark City is unabashed in its eccentricities and relishes the hypnotic, mystifying world it creates.

| Aug 12, 2020

If, for some reason, you have yet to see Dark City, do not hesitate to rent, tune in, or purchase it. It is one of the finest science fiction films of recent memory.

| Feb 26, 2020

'Dark City' is one of those productions that, the more you see it, the more extra details and better feelings it prints. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 22, 2019

Dark City is fascinating, visionary filmmaking that captures the sensation of dreaming and being unable to wake up.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 9, 2018

City ultimately plays like one of those art-deco dystopian CD-ROM adventures of recent years.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2011

A visionary slice of visceral experience.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 31, 2009

Writer/Director Alex Proyas needs to stop it with the writing and concentrate on making the pretty. He needs to find a good script and just direct it.

| Jan 7, 2009

The experience of Dark City is one that no film lover should miss... seen now as it was intended after 10 long years of wandering in the shadows.

| Original Score: A+ | Aug 10, 2008

Proyas assembles his inspirations into a unique amalgam with the power of myth to tap the fears and desires of our collective unconscious. [Blu-Ray]

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 5, 2008

mixes visual marvels with B-movie archetypes

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 28, 2008

Was "The Matrix" before "The Matrix" was ever in the pop culture lexicon...

| Jul 27, 2008

In the annals of noir Sci-Fi, by any measure, this is a Classic of cinematic invention.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 25, 2008

...the movie is mostly style, but it's a style so engrossing, it more than makes up for any lack of substance.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 25, 2008