Drac is back, though it’s fair to ask why. Dozens of Dracula movies have been made in this century alone, and Luc Besson’s “Dracula” recycles familiar elements such as having the brooding count ...

Caleb Landry Jones takes a big bite of the title role in "Dracula," director Luc Besson's altogether unserious telling of the extremely familiar bloodsucker tale. The adaptation offers a few wrinkles ...

It's a "romantic," derivative, dutifully time-period-hopping, different-but-not-really-new take on the vampire legend. So here we are again, caught up in the never-ending slow-drip flood of cinematic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Caleb Landry Jones in a scene from "Dracula." (Shanna Besson/Vertical/TNS) What, another "Dracula" already? Around this time just ...

Luc Besson’s Dracula: A Love Tale feels like an adaptation that assumes you already know the legend so well, that it doesn’t need to fill out its story as well as its costuming. Sure, Dracula is one ...

Dracula will be released in theaters on February 6. At last, they’ve done it! They’ve made a movie based on Dracula! Oh, wait, what’s that? They are making Dracula movies all the time? Almost ...

Perhaps every filmmaker feels like they have to make their version of “Dracula” at some point — and it certainly helps that Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel has been in the public domain for decades, allowing ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 57 percent Rotten Tomatoes score and 45 rating on Metacritic reflect the split reaction among reviewers. Here's a sampling.

Besson is actually in his not-that-impressionable mid-60s, but an adolescent impulse has run through much of his work over the years, including (and maybe especially) in his best-loved movies, like ...

Caleb Landry Jones in a scene from "Dracula." (Shanna Besson/Vertical/TNS) Perhaps every filmmaker feels like they have to make their version of “Dracula” at some point — and it certainly helps that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. Luc Besson’s Dracula, starring Caleb Landry Jones and Christoph Waltz, is new in theaters ...