In 1988, Michael Keaton needed only 17 minutes to create one of the best and weirdest characters in Hollywood history.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 19, 2024

A wonderfully weird horror comedy from director Tim Burton, Beetlejuice invites the audience to have as much fun as its clearly having.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 9, 2024

The film still works and is just as charming and engaging as it was when I watched it as a kid. Michael Keaton is iconic, and Ryder, Baldwin, Davis and O’Hara all excel in their roles (the less said about Jeffrey Jones the better). Full review in Spanish.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 6, 2024

What more frightening than being dead? Being slogged down by bureaucracy and forced to read a handbook or facing the lecherous mayhem of a bio-exorcist? This is a fun and quirky look at death and the problems of the recently deceased.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 6, 2024

In a movie landscape where so much can feel disposable in how it plays safe and toes the line, we can be glad that we'll always have the maniac that is Beetlejuice.

| Sep 6, 2024

Burton’s off-the-wall imagining of a bureaucratically mired afterlife that looks for all the world like a back-alley doctor’s dubious practice, drunk on petrol fumes and too much Dali, was gloriously surreal.

| Sep 6, 2024

Although Burton’s sensibilities are offbeat and his humor verges on the macabre, this outing is not inaccessible to the mainstream. There’s an oddball charm to the proceedings...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 5, 2024

Beetlejuice is the garish granddaddy of kinda small-scale kinda family-friendly horror comedy as Tim Burton is in his full element.

| Sep 5, 2024

The film is a creative triumph, with amazing characters and boundless background details that flesh out the world.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 4, 2024

…at least it's short and doesn’t overstay its welcome, and is full of cheaply-realised but undeniable visual imagination…it’s just that Beetlejuice’s seedy game-show host/frat-boy humour looks fairly dubious in 2024...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 3, 2024

I found it quite entertaining. The jokes for the most part work and the creepy atmosphere is effective.

| Sep 3, 2024

Tim Burton's dizzyingly weird horror-comedy marked the high point of his early career, before soulless remakes became his calling card. Here's hoping the sequel matches its subversive energy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 2, 2024

The peculiarity of its title, characters and the story has that one-of-a-kind, unique charm only [Tim] Burton could come up with.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 1, 2024

Like his first film, Burton's second effort is clever, colorful and short enough not to challenge one's patience.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 22, 2024

Ultimately, the special effects and wacky premise weigh down the story and turn the movie into something akin to an overlong carnival ride.

| Aug 22, 2024

You have to admire the nutty gutsiness of its puerile purity, even if most of it passes over the border from silly into foolish.

| Aug 22, 2024

If this unapologetically silly movie falters when the grab bag of visual tricks threatens to tear, it is propped up by the many giddy performances.

| Aug 22, 2024

At the end, you feel exhilarated, because the cunning way Burton works is part of the joke. His innocent deviousness lifts you up high, like helium.

| Aug 22, 2024

The filmmakers parcel out the horrific gags so tirelessly they lose sight of the tale they're telling.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 22, 2024

Undeniably silly, but satisfying and effective all the same.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 22, 2024