Dorian Gray

Worthy film can't decide....the film veers most dangerously toward becoming a horror movie, pure and simple.....Whether or not the re-interpretation is always successful is another question entirely, but superb production values and imaginative, vigorous camerawork, music....The excellent musical score recalls Hitchcockian motifs, most notably that of "Vertigo.... ... Full Review

Ben Barnes is certainly handsome enough to turn heads....his wide-eyed Dorian is fairly dull..... ... Full Review

Visually the film lacks subtlety, with Parker lingering over blood-red jam being smeared on a scone....Ben Barnes is tall, dull and handsome as the wide-eyed Dorian....As a result, Parker's disappointing re-visit could well be considered redundant....his Dorian seems too tame for the modern horror audience and too inelegant for the traditional period drama crowd.....Colin Firth has some of the film's best lines and dispenses the witty, world-weary bon mots of the manipulative Wotton with practised ease even ... Full Review

Veteran emos will appreciate the gothic movie murk:....Parker doesn't help by presenting us with standard images of horror -.... ... Full Review

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TORONTO - He'll probably cringe at the turn of phrase, but celebrity is something Ben Barnes is still growing into. It's not the paparazzi part of the idea that makes the crush-worthy star of Prince Caspian and the forthcoming Dorian... ... Full Article

Ben Barnes plays Dorian Gray in Oliver Parker's pointless and ponderous neogothic fable, an adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel about a young man who has everything - beauty, eternal youth and fame - and loses it all. ... Full Article

TORONTO--Nearly two days of screenings of available titles has brought a typical Toronto pace -- a very slow start to the market. The festival has lost some of its robustness as a market for U.S. rights in the past few... ... Full Article

The painting is the star of Oliver Parker's Dorian Gray. It looks suggestively blurred, almost out of focus. Wait - are those bags under its eyes? ... Full Article

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