Argento’s style is present visually, but the screenplay ends up being the real killer here, with a pile of plot conveniences leading up to a predictable ending.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 7, 2024

Tamer, yes, but with enough of the same potential for bite that Dark Glasses can, and should, be considered a successful return with an aim to bring in new fans.

| Aug 4, 2024

It may only have a dash of the gloss and flair of Argento at his best, but it’s by no means the crushing disappointment claimed by some critics and fans.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 19, 2023

DARK GLASSES is a discouraging and cynical genre exercise from Dario Argento...Here’s hoping that he doesn’t repeat the mistakes of DARK GLASSES. It tries and fails to be more in line with modern horror cinema by not committing to empathy and realism.

| Dec 28, 2022

Weirdly stiff and awkward, and even amateurish at times. It's pretty much thrill-free, and a big letdown.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 15, 2022

Expectation is the biggest enemy of this by-the-books Giallo. For dyed-in-the-wool Argento fans, Dark Glasses isn't quite the suspenseful showcase you've come to associate with the name.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Nov 2, 2022

Dark Glasses might not be a disaster, but make no mistake that this is far from being another Argento classic. The first 90% of the feature is a strong giallo psychological thriller, but the conclusion is nothing better than amateur.

| Oct 31, 2022

Dark Glasses lacks the stamina necessary to string an audience along while setting up scares. Just when you think the film is about to make a turn for the better, scenes end as quickly as they began, rushing toward an illogical conclusion.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 27, 2022

He still has a flare for the bloody, but his sense of pacing and tension feels completely off kilter. By the time Diana and Chin end up in the middle of a marshland ,I was ready to proclaim the film a noble effort without much payoff.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 26, 2022

Less interesting for anything it does or doesn't do in and of itself, than because one of the titans of the genre has decided to use his waning remaining years to run through a fairly straightforward little murder mystery.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 24, 2022

Welcome back, Dario Argento.

| Oct 18, 2022

The lighting, killings, and setting will all be familiar to longtime fans of Italian horror. The film has a tendency to get a little silly at times, but fans of Argento will be glad to see the master back in his natural element.

| Oct 15, 2022

The director’s finest work in decades, which is nonetheless damning with some pretty faint praise.

| Oct 15, 2022

Dario Argento’s latest simply doesn’t push the boundaries of its genre or of cinema itself, alarming given the level of invention the director has risen to in the past.

| Oct 15, 2022

A collection of murdery bits that Argento wants us to stare at until we feel uncomfortable, strung together in a perfunctory, boring plot as the harpsichords-harpsichords-everywhere-harpsichords score chimes away.

| Oct 15, 2022

There are set pieces scattered throughout “Dark Eyes” that are as strange — and as strangely beautiful — as the best of Argento...

| Oct 14, 2022

Italian horror great Dario Argento hasn’t made a good movie in at least 20 years (arguably much longer), and the new Dark Glasses isn’t one, either.

| Oct 14, 2022

Argento's return is a welcome reminder that he can still deliver the magic on a smaller scale, and that he still has a knack for finding just the right thriller notes to make us all squirm in our seats.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 14, 2022

Dark Glasses is a satisfying return to form for the director, this nifty little retro Giallo slasher a tasty October treat worth savoring.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 14, 2022

While it’s easy to dismiss “Dark Glasses” as the work of a master gone soft, Pastorelli’s prickly, sharp-tongued Diana is perhaps the most charismatic leading lady of Argento’s career. She dominates her surroundings — a rarity in his films

| Original Score: C | Oct 13, 2022