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DARK SHADOWS
April 6, 2013  | By David Bianculli

Cinemax, 10:00 p.m. ET

 
This 2012 Tim Burton version of the classic TV gothic soap opera isn’t as satisfying, or as well-written, as it should have been. But there are enough quirky performances to make it enjoyable, starting with Johnny Depp as a bemused, time-transplanted Barnabas Collins. Eva Green, going blonde after terrorizing Arthur and Merlin as the brunette sorceress in TV’s Camelot, plays another malevolent spell-caster here, and she’s fun to watch. So are Chloe Grace Moretz, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter and others, though this movie, as a whole, ends up being less than the sum of its parts.
 
 
 
 
 
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