Tim Burton’s career has been in a strange place for a while now, with remakes and ‘reimaginings’ taking up more of his time than genuinely original or interesting projects, while Dark Shadows seems to have been met with a kind of irritation that it’s ‘another Tim Burton film with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter in it’. I’d love to say that it’s a rip-roaring return to form for one of my favourite directors, but, unfortunately, it’s a bit too much hit-and-miss.