Dark Streets 2008

Critics score:
19 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune: Dark Streets lost me early, real early, like still-adjusting-my-eyes-in-a-dark-theater early: Welcome to the blues, growls the entertainer with the mohawk and the full-length ringmaster gown. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: This charmless fantasy tries to recapture the mix of hot jazz and cold cynicism that lit up Chicago, adding a dash of punk for good measure Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Rachel Samuels' thin, affected jazz-age noir Dark Streets is worse than most, grafting an indifferent series of twists and double-crosses onto a blues-nightclub backdrop that overwhelms the foreground. Read more

Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly: The flimsy plot -- less a whodunit than an isn't-it-screamingly-obvious-that-that-guy-done-it! -- will have thriller fans singing the blues. Read more

Tim Grierson, L.A. Weekly: So obsessed with mimicry it's practically a tribute band of a movie. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: I love musicals, but I'd be hard-pressed to recommend this curiosity. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's a lovingly souped-up incarnation of the film-noir look, contains well-staged and performed musical numbers, and has a lot of cigarettes, tough tootsies, bad guys and shadows. What it doesn't have is a story that pulls us along. Read more

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Rob Nelson, Variety: Feebly mixing film noir and the old-time nightclub musical, Dark Streets could do with illumination in more ways than one. Read more