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In Tim Burton's campy reboot of the Gothic soap Dark Shadows, Johnny Depp plays Barnabas Collins, a vampire with antiquated sensibilities who surfaces in the '70s after a 200-year imprisonment at the hands of a spurned lover.
'Dark Shadows': A Retro Redo Lacking Life And Luster
()Tim Burton and Johnny Depp's latest collaboration adapts the vintage Gothic soap opera, focusing on aristocratic vampire Barnabas Collins as a fish out of water in the 1970s. NPR's Bob Mondello says that except for Depp's clever turn as Barnabas, there isn't much to sink your teeth into.
Movie Reviews
In Childhood, When 'I Wish' Equals An Action Plan ()
May 10, 2012 After a divorce, a young Japanese boy becomes obsessed with reuniting his family — and hopes that what he's heard about the power of wishes can make it happen.
Movie Reviews
'America': A Gleefully Violent Pop-Culture Pushback()
May 10, 2012 In a black comedy taking aim at American popular culture, a middle-aged man with terminal cancer (Joel Murray) decides to kill lowlifes — including texting moviegoers and reality TV stars. Critic Ella Taylor says God Bless America is a one-trick pony, but delivers venomous cultural criticism.
Movie Reviews
'Dark Shadows': A Vampire Returns, Without His Bite()
May 10, 2012 Johnny Depp stars in Tim Burton's feature-film adaptation of the cult Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, about an 18th-century vampire transplanted to the 1970s. Critic and longtime Dark Shadows fan David Edelstein says the camp sendup of the show is lifeless and unfunny.
Movie Reviews
When Mystery Writer Meets Pinup Girl (Who's Dead)()
May 10, 2012 When the body of a Marilyn Monroe-look-alike is found after an apparent suicide in a sleepy French town, a Paris-based mystery novelist decides to investigate. Critic Mark Jenkins says the film is a smart if outlandish whodunit.
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'Where Do We Go?' Lebanese Women Pave The Way()
May 10, 2012 A group of women are determined to stop their hotheaded men from starting a religious war in Where Do We Go Now?, a bittersweet comedy from Lebanese director Nadine Labaki. The film has broken box office records in the Middle East.
'Dark Shadows': The Birth Of The Modern TV Vampire()
May 10, 2012 When it comes to monsters on television, vampires have the market cornered. And so popular are TV vampires that opening this weekend is a movie based on the grand-sire of all vampire TV shows: Dark Shadows. Elizabeth Blair takes a look at the evolution of a TV character that will never die.
Movie Reviews
'Best Exotic Marigold Hotel': Retirement, Outsourced()
May 3, 2012 A pack of cash-poor British elders ships out for India in hopes of one last stab at self-renewal in a supposedly glam hotel. Critic Ella Taylor says the ensemble comedy is likable enough, even when it wears its latent colonial instincts on its sleeve.
