It's dark, touching on topics from rape to PTSD, but if you want something quality to watch this Christmas, this is it.
Moynihan: And then, the first thing is almost the exact same shot of him in the dark touching the dragons.
Towering above them is the vastly different and dark "Touching Evil," which may be the best "Mystery" of all.
His reflections finally reveal the dark touch of classical tragedy, which is where this remarkable comedy of manners leads — or, perhaps, what it's secretly been all along.
Furniture gets into the act in Marina de Van's "Dark Touch," another film (this one a co-production of companies in France, Ireland and Sweden) in which objects become lethal.
In the film "Dark Touch," an 11-year-old named Neve, the only survivor of a massacre that killed her parents and brother, finds she has similar powers.
There are some lovely dark touches: an old man who has pawned his gold teeth five times loses them in the chaos of a rocket attack.
Roger Lloyd Pack is an effective, insinuating Buckingham, and there are some dark touches from Paul Chahidi (who doubles as Hastings and Tyrrell) and from Peter Hamilton Dyer as Brakenbury and Catesby.
Bearing clear similarities to Mr. King's stories about scary minors, "Dark Touch" circles a terrified young girl, Neve (Missy Keating), whose creepily solicitous parents blame her for the bruises on her baby brother and the violent disturbances in their house.
Part revenge fantasy, part psychological horror, "Dark Touch" owes something to the writings of Stephen King and even more to the jaggedly atmospheric cinematography of John Conroy (who worked most recently on the British television series "Luther" and "Silk").
