Strong performances add the required heft to keep you onside when the plot gets dodgy. Hutton's nice-guy image is perfect for the dual role.

Full Review | Feb 28, 2024

As if to make up for the slack pacing, the violence seems unnecessarily garish and sadistic.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 4, 2019

This is too well-made and acted to be a total failure, and even the formulaic slasher scenes are handled with creepy aplomb.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 8, 2018

King's story is full of zingers, all aptly visualized by Romero.

Full Review | Oct 8, 2018

Hutton's George Stark is a terrific contrast, a cowboy greaser in black who's all razor edges, cigarettes and booze.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2009

It's a strong conceit, but precisely how it's linked to a feather-brained subplot about the black-outs and aural hallucinations Thad suffered as a child remains obscure.

Full Review | Jan 26, 2006

The scenes are so beautifully done that Hitchcock might have admired them, or at least their technical facility.

Full Review | Aug 30, 2004

The Dark Half ends as a Stephen King movie only a George Stark could love.

Full Review | May 12, 2001

The film's biggest disappointment is that it doesn't develop its preternatural opening theme.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Romero's film starts out well and clearly benefits from some higher-on-the-line elements, ranging from the cast to the cinematography of Tony Pierce-Roberts. But like too many King transfers to the screen, it falls apart in the last reel.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000