Dorian Gray (DVD) Reviews

I've always loved the dark idea behind Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and was quite excited by the idea of it becoming a film. This excitement increased even more when I saw the trailer, which promised sumptuous visuals and a dark twist to your average period drama. Having seen so many book to film adaptations fall flat on ...  Read the complete review

This movie is based on the 1891 novelof the same name by Oscar Wilde. A young Dorian (Ben Barnes) arrives to London in order to inherit his family property which leads him to meet Henry Wotton (Colin Firth) where he realises all the people aroudn him are mesmerised by his beauty. Then Henry introduces him to a painter who captures his beatuy in a ...  Read the complete review

The Picture of Dorian Gray - a classic piece of literature by Oscar Wilde, and the only novel he ever wrote - but it hasn't adapted that well to the big screen over the years, and in particular, the 1970 Massimo Dallamano directed version was apparently quite a shameful effort. The last time the character of Dorian Gray appeared onscreen was ...  Read the complete review

To Victorian London we go, then, for this adaptation of the classic Oscar Wilde novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray", published in 1891 and denounced by contemporary critics as "unclean" and "effeminate". Ben Barnes takes the lead role here, introduced to society on his majority to Colin Firth as Lord Henry Wotton and ...  Read the complete review

I'm not a huge film buff and only go to the cinema perhaps four or five times a year. I'm a bit fussy on films and so only once in a while I see a trailer or a poster and think 'I have to go and see that. ' The latest one to fall into the category was Dorian Gray. Based on 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde, admittedly I have ...  Read the complete review

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room If there's any recent film that I really wanted to enjoy, it's Dorian Gray, an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's searing 1891 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. It's a great story that's quite luscivious but also extremely clever, thanks to Wilde's superb witticisms, although sadly, ...  Read the complete review

I seem to be the only person in the world who didn't know the history of the Dorian Gray story, I did however see the advert for the film several times and really wanted to see it. I persuaded my boyfriend that we had to go and see it and dragged him along! He went in with different expectations as he had heard the story before so knew what to ...  Read the complete review

This isn't normally the sort of film which I'd choose to see, but my girlfriend wanted to see it, so off I went... As soon as it started we are send off into a computer generated world of the past. I really wasn't a fan of these, they just really didn't look realistic and were quite poor in my opinion. I'm never really a huge lover of ...  Read the complete review

This film is that lastest adaptation of the novel 'A Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde. I've never read the book so really had no idea what to expect but my boyfriend is a fan of the novel so off we went to the cinema. A week after seeing the film, I am still a little unsure what to make of it! The story follows the young and ...  Read the complete review

Dorian Gray is based on the 1891 gothic horror novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. The young and innocent Dorian (Ben Barnes) arrives in London to inherit the family property and is welcomed into society by the decadent Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth) where he soon finds that jaded socialites are mesmerized by his ...  Read the complete review