Typically, Burton's storytelling is sometimes erratic, but his emphasis on humanizing marginal characters -- a project that seems central to his artistic agenda -- is as strong as ever.
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10/05/08
Ed Wood (1994)
91 %
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Reviews Counted: 55
Fresh: 50
Rotten:5
Average Rating: 7.9/10
Consensus: Tim Burton and Johnny Depp team up to fete the life and work of cult hero Ed Wood, with typically strange and wonderful results.
Runtime: 2 hrs 7 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A stranger-than-fiction true story of the early career of Edward D. Wood, Jr., the undisputed "worst movie director of all time," Tim Burton's ED WOOD is nevertheless a delightful, zany, and ultimately moving film. Wood was the auteur... [More]
Starring: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Bill Murray
Director: Tim Burton
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10/05/08
Top Critic The film's greatest achievement is to avoid the easy, patronizing laughs and instead see the near heroic qualities of a patently untalented artist.
10/05/08
Top Critic It's refreshing to see Burton in a relatively upbeat mood, but he picked the wrong story to give an optimistic spin.
07/30/07
I loved the acting, Johnny Depp and Landau are awesome, the B&W look is perfect and the story is kind of cute, but where is the genius in this flick? Am I missing something?
07/07/06
Lo más interesante de esta película es el propio Wood, no su vida (que en términos burgueses podría considerarse un fracaso) sino su permanente optimismo y convicción de valía profesional.
05/02/06
It certainly succeeds as a funny, touching tribute to tenacity, energy, ambition and friendship.
01/26/06
Droll and witty, Burton's tribute evokes the career of Hollywood's "worst" director by making a most stylishly polished production
06/27/05
Tim Burton, fidèle à son talent et à sa réputation, transforme un scénario déjà bien concocté en un film des plus divertissants
11/25/04
A gentle valentine that celebrates the creative spirit, no matter how misguided that particular spirit happens to be.
11/09/04
This delightful film focuses on the more telling years when Edward D. Wood did what he did to become who he is...
10/30/04
[It] remains the greatest movie about the pleasures and hardships of independent filmmaking.
10/26/04
Depp's magnificent performance, plus Burton's love of his subject make for a wonderful film. Landau is magnificent as Bela Lugosi. A great film that celebrates the little filmmakers who dreamed big.
09/21/04
Landau's Lugosi is an alternately amusing and heartbreaking character who is given one last taste of life while in orbit around Wood's infectious mania
03/02/04
True or not, the film is brilliant in every capacity %u2013 rich, warm and outrageously funny.
08/13/03
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