Martin Landau

For fans, it's the equivalent of a "very special episode," with a beefed up budget and an imperative to advance the storyline at least a little

One senses Acker stretching his eleven-minute short rather than containing bigger ideas and characters who have taken on lives of their own: 9 too clearly puts style over substance.

Big in scope, but not necessarily in a good way.

Though The Twilight Zone largely fell into tired repetitiveness in its final season, its crafty tales and spectrum of darkness to humor still stood apart from the television pack...

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.

Nervy and unnerving...arguably the purest expression of Allen's cinematic vision.