Tim Burton

Despite its failings...a hugely influential movie with literally towering design, mordant wit, and a hall-of-fame performance by Jack Nicholson.

Burton['s] staging is expert, and his character conceptions are distinctive and gratifying.

Never stops doling out demented treats....Dahl's morality play of bad parenting and bad-egg kids is evergreen....a genuinely amazing movie.

[Burton paints] death as a (literally) more colorful plane of existence than life, the ultimate subversive joke in a movie full of them.

What a pleasure it is, then, to report that Burton's version tends more to the abattoir than the amusement park...

More tiresome than entertaining, especially with mind-numbing CGI exhaustion setting in early.

A purely creative movie that one must admit has no equal in cinema history (for better or worse).

By asking the audience to take far too much on faith, Dark Shadows can only be an interesting failure.

Flipping the cautionary themes of Mary Shelley’s original source material, Frankenweenie plays out as a primarily pro-science parable...goes out of its way to encourage free-thinking square pegs to avoid gaping round holes.

Burton pokes fun at Keane's art, but he kids because he loves, and Big Eyes productively asks the question of whether the paintings are art or kitsch (probable answer: both).

Dumbo has morphed into a fable of modernized entertainment business models and the handling and packaging of IP...strange thematic material for a PG Disney movie aimed at families...and it gets stranger.