Batman 20th Anniversary Edition

By Jack Patrick Rodgers

This is the template for the modern summer blockbuster which makes it, for better or worse, the most-influential film of the last 25 years. [16 July 2009]

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

By Jack Patrick Rodgers

Burton indulges in meticulously designed, deliberately artificial sets, cinematography that makes the world monochromatic, protagonists with pale skin and sunken eyes – but it's that passion coursing beneath the surface that makes this film feel more alive than anything he's done in years. [2 April 2008]

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

By Cynthia Fuchs

Sweeney Todd is delirious with blood and violence: bright red spurting from the barber's expert slashes, necks snapping and bodies crumpling. [21 December 2007]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Two-Disc Deluxe Edition (2005)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Tim Burton's movie is mostly perky, slightly edgy, and dully episodic. [8 November 2005]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

By Cynthia Fuchs

This being a Tim Burton film, the celebration of childish pleasures is not simply joyous, but tweaked. [15 July 2005]

Big Fish (2003)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Edward's persistent self-inflation frustrates Will, just as its contradictions appeal to Burton. [26 April 2004]

Big Fish (2003)

By Jesse Hassenger

Edward is less obviously an outsider than Burton's other Edwards (Scissorhands and Wood), but equally filled with a winning sense of wonder. [8 January 2004]

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

By P. Nelson Reinsch

When the Burgomaster (played by still great Horror film legend Christopher Lee) sends Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) to Sleepy Hollow, you may suspect that Ichabod is being sent to the land of Hammer Horror, or perhaps the woods of Horror Movies Past. [1 January 1995]

Planet of the Apes (2001)

By Josh Jones

As Tim Burton's new version of 'Planet of the Apes' demonstrates in many ways, some subtle, some not so, the recycling of cultural milestones is not simply a marketing device, but a way to rejuvenate cultural mythology, be it science fiction or religious fable.

Planet of the Apes (2001)

By Ben Varkentine

Tim Burton should never have been given this assignment. There are no humans in his films, which can impress, but never move us.

Mixed Media: Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (trailer)

Short Ends and Leader: ‘Alice’ in Blunderland?

With the 'Net abuzz with news of a recently released teaser trailer for the upcoming Disney effort (March 2010 is the proposed time frame for its debut), it's interesting to note what this new version of Alice is… and is not. [23 July 2009]

Alan Rickman can be a saint, but sometimes evil becomes him [4 January 2008]

Tim Burton knew he was cut out to direct `Sweeney Todd’ [18 December 2007]