The Seeker: The Dark is Rising Critic Reviews

A mostly entertaining movie with built-in appeal to young audiences. The good news for parents is that it won't put them to sleep.Read the full review

Starts out with promise but staggers under the weight of trying to take on too much. The tone is murky: The story attempts to blend adolescent angst with fantasy adventure, and the result is rather clunky.Read the full review

Slick, good-looking, cluttered pic won't please fans of novelist Susan Cooper's original "The Dark Is Rising" sequence. But then, they are mostly grown-ups by now, and this very Hollywood-style adaptation of a very English book is aimed squarely at tweens.Read the full review

The film plods along without a lot of excitement or inspiration.Read the full review

Feels passé and lacks a charismatic lead. Too bad Daniel Radcliffe is an only child.Read the full review

A movie that should've been made shortly after its source material -- Susan Cooper's Newbery winner -- debuted in 1973. As is, it feels entirely too generic to work today.Read the full review

Dreary, spectacle-driven adaptation.Read the full review

This movie is a particular disappointment. Although The Seeker is in Walden's tradition of positive storytelling, John Hodge's script is guilty of downright goofy utterances on occasion.Read the full review

The producers - Fox Films and the usually reliable Walden Media - have tried to gin up the story for multiplex audiences. They've succeeded in making a movie for no audience at all.Read the full review