Film reviews: Dark Shadows | The Source | Two Years at Sea | 2 Days in New York
Dark Shadows (12A)
Rating: **
Tim Burton taps Johnny Depp yet again, this time to play Barnabas, a vampire who wakes up in the swinging 70s. Based on a dated US TV show, it boasts buckets of set design but the same inattentive storytelling that has dogged many of his films recently.
On general release
The Source (15)
Rating: ***
Radu Mihaileanu’s dramedy is set in a North African village where the women go on strike and deprive their partners of sex until they collect water from a far-away well. Negligent bin-emptiers in this country may empathise.
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Two Years at Sea (U)
Rating: **
Ben Rivers’ lengthy black and white essay about a hermit trudging around the wilds of Scotland demonstrates that one person’s contemplative art project is another’s underwhelming snooze.
DCA, until 17 May; Glasgow Film Theatre, 22-24 May
2 Days In New York (15)
Rating: ***
Julie Delpy has set up home with Chris Rock in this follow-up to 2 Days in Paris. But she can’t escape her annoying family. Overcaffeinated comedy, bordering on hysteria.
On general release from Friday