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Johnny Depp
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Before Night Falls (2000)
Secret Window (2004)
Finding Neverland (2004)
A missed opportunity...recommendable to audiences looking for a warm-hearted, tearjerking movie, but not terribly commendable for cineastes in search of a sophisticated film.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Never stops doling out demented treats....Dahl's morality play of bad parenting and bad-egg kids is evergreen....a genuinely amazing movie.
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005)
[Burton paints] death as a (literally) more colorful plane of existence than life, the ultimate subversive joke in a movie full of them.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
As if to mock the film's all-trappings, no-sense agenda, Depp's Sparrow gets off the film's sole sign of verbal wit: 'Look! An undead monkey!'
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
Rum should be mandatory for every man, woman, and child misguidedly attempting to make sense of the frantic
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
.
Gypsy Caravan (a.k.a. When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan) (2007)
To best enjoy the energetic and big-hearted
Gypsy Caravan
, know that it's not so much a concert film as it is a cultural-anthropology documentary...
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
What a pleasure it is, then, to report that Burton's version tends more to the abattoir than the amusement park...
Public Enemies (2009)
True-crime story or romantic myth-making? This was the question I brought in to Michael Mann's
Public Enemies
...and, though seemingly an either-or proposition, the question still on my mind when I walked out.
The Ninth Gate (1999)
Sorely underrated...wisely counter-cultural to Hollywood's idea of what a supernatural thriller should be.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
Endearingly packed to the rafters with ornate anachronistic artistry, Gilliam’s
Imaginarium
is a great place to window shop—and get lost for a spell.
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
More tiresome than entertaining, especially with mind-numbing CGI exhaustion setting in early.
The Tourist (2010)
Venice is pretty alright, but like its namesake (or, for that matter, like a kidney stone),
The Tourist
is just passing through.
Rango (2011)
I suspect the young'uns will...take a shine to the hero of
Rango
: a chameleon that's part Kermit the Frog, part street-corner kook (and all Johnny Depp, who supplies the often hilarious voice).
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
The problem with attempting to replicate the 'magic,' such as it was, of
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
is you get something very close to a replica, minus the novelty.
Benny & Joon (1993)
Any film that features Johnny Depp performing salutes to the great silent comedians (and, in particular, Buster Keaton) deserves a little slack...
Dark Shadows (2012)
By asking the audience to take far too much on faith,
Dark Shadows
can only be an interesting failure.
The Lone Ranger (2013)
Prompts 'The Cosplay Kid' of the Comic-Con era of cinema to swallow the sins of our forefathers and the ones we countenance today.
Transcendence (2014)
A throwback to the fear-mongering science fiction of the past...the lab-bound likes of
The Andromeda Strain
and
Demon Seed
, circa the paranoid '70s.
Black Mass (2015)
Stars Depp in a performance generating awards talk, makes a complicated story coherent without dumbing it down (much), lets a bunch of strong actors do their things, and yet inspires little more than adjectives like 'efficient' and 'workmanlike.'
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