Dark Shadows (2012)

W, 9.00PM ★★

Tim Burton’s film is at its best in the opening scenes, when it can afford to be all show and no tell. It’s Johnny Depp, naturally, who plays Barnabas Collins, an 18th-century Byronic rascal who is transformed into a vampire by a jealous witch (Eva Green) and wakes up in Nixon-era small-town America. Depp and Burton’s eighth film together brought them level with De Niro and Scorsese, although in numerical terms only.