The Seeker: The Dark is Rising
Chicago TribuneAt its best, The Seeker is a pretty vivid fantasy book come-to-life; it does a decent, passable job of adding to the canon o...
The Boston GlobeWhat exactly are The Light and The Dark? The filmmakers sincerely hope you don't ask.
The Austin ChronicleThroughout its interminable and steadfastly, maniacally bewildering running time, neither the cast nor director Cunningham a...
Los Angeles TimesDirector David L. Cunningham applies a jarring, disorienting style to much of the action that, rather than mirroring Will's ...
Houston ChroniclesIt's simply product for a pre-conditioned marketplace, pushing familiar buttons without doing anything remotely creative.
New York Daily NewsA reasonable choice for bored tweens -- as long as they don't demand too much magic from their movies.
New York PostGiven superpowers, Will does approximately nothing with them (he can command fire, but uses it mainly to throw cool supertan...
San Francisco ChronicleLudwig, a relative unknown with some TV and film experience, is awfully cute, but lacks the needed gravitas and charm to tur...
Box Office Magazine[The film features] episodic set pieces with disorienting action, culminating in a face-off that defies logic in its resolut...
EmpireOff-the-shelf teen fantasy not likely to satisfy the post-Potter/LOTR crowd but guaranteed to enrage fans of the sourc...
Times OnlineThe Dark is Rising is one of those awful sorcery tales where a spotty young boy (Alexander Ludwig) suddenly gets to save the...
The GuardianA moderate Potter-teen fantasy about an American kid who comes to little old England with his family (dad's on some kind of ...
USA TodayThe movie ultimately emerges as a lackluster tale of teenage empowerment and doesn't fully conjure the requisite sense of ma...
VarietyCooper presented this rather basic good/evil mythos in more low-key, atmospheric form than the film allows, leaving thesps (...
Washington PostPoor writing and production values like these bring no light to Cooper's novel -- or the audience.
Entertainment WeeklyA movie that should've been made shortly after its source material -- Susan Cooper's Newbery winner -- debuted in 1973. As i...
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Partial Film Information
Director: David Cunningham
Writer: John Hodge
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Ian McShane, Alexander Ludwig, Frances Conroy
Release: October 5, 2007
Writer: John Hodge
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Ian McShane, Alexander Ludwig, Frances Conroy
Release: October 5, 2007
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