Radcliffe's Performance (Spoilers)

Rating: Null/10 (4 February 2012)

The Woman in Black turned out to be quite a successful Friday night movie, plotty and quite scary, without being over the top - nothing that the audience will take home with it.
Most of the reviews have hit the nail on the head. I am writing only to take issue with that minority of critics who complained about Daniel Radcliffe's performance. In my opinion, he was excellent - conveying the rising states of suspicion and fear in his character's emotional state, without ever lapsing into camp or chewing the carpet. He is on screen for 90 percent of the scenes, maybe more, including an extended set piece in the middle in which he is the sole actor in front of the camera. (That by the way was the spoiler - not much, in my opinion, but I take no chances.)
I am a huge admirer of the Harry Potter novels, but not of the movies - beginning with 'Order of the Phoenix', the director and writer didn't even try to match the nuance of the narrative, and they are more a series of staged tableaux than a fair presentation of the novel content. Maybe for that reason, I thought Radcliffe was far better in this part than any of those.