It’s strange how a film that’s only 104 minutes feels both overstuffed and intermittently undercooked. There’s a lot at work here, multiple plots jockeying for supremacy and swirling together into something cacophonous and at times exhausting.

| Apr 13, 2025

A slightly disappointing legacy sequel from Tim Burton featuring the glorious return of Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and Catherine O'Hara to a franchise they made famous, but in a film overstuffed with characters, plot holes and ridiculous story beats.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 23, 2025

Once a proud young artist pioneering the exploration of the pop-macabre and the surreal, Tim Burton appears to have become a ghost of his former self. There are few, if any, traces of the iconic filmmaker in 2024’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

| Jan 16, 2025

When I most definitely will run into a drunk guy dressed like Beetlejuice on Halloween, if I ask him to tell me about his night, it will almost certainly be a more interesting story than the one Beetlejuice Beetlejuice tells.

| Dec 20, 2024

[T]here’s nothing to this movie. It was gossamer, it was a spider web — swipe your hand and it vanishes. ... The final act did pick up, as if the movie had realized it was just puttering around and had to rouse itself and finish big. Too little, too late.

| Dec 19, 2024

“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” provides a perfect popcorn movie to escape to in air-conditioned cinemas. It offers deliciously dark and twisted eye candy but not much more.

| Dec 19, 2024

The new film is darker, stranger, and it makes much more nonsensical sense than the original. It also focuses on three generations of women played by three terrific actors — making it infinitely more watchable.

| Original Score: B | Dec 19, 2024

A delightfully dark and often silly ride that gives us a taste of classic Burton that of course won’t beat the original in many fans’ eyes just like most sequels, but will give that nice hit of nostalgia and enough of something new to keep most happy.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 26, 2024

Just like the Maitlands in the 1988 original, this entry seems to be stuck between two worlds, often working as a tuned-in sequel to the first flick but other times failing to capitalize on established material.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 23, 2024

Burton is clearly endeavoring to maintain the same tone of carnivalesque horror-humor, but there is something about the new film that feels too modern, too digital, and too overdone

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 22, 2024

In the end, Death remains the Great Equalizer. We lose some beloved (and not so beloved) characters, as Lydia's isolation is replaced by something approaching satisfaction. It's about the best Gen X can hope for.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 20, 2024

It may feature much of the same great cast as the original film, as well as some great new additions, but unfortunately it stumbles greatly when it comes to the screenplay, which tries to cram far too many storylines into one relatively short film.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 18, 2024

A goofy, gory delight.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 18, 2024

Hauntingly heartwarming and frightfully funny, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a goth valentine to the terror of the living.

| Nov 11, 2024

When the credits roll, you may feel you’ve spent 104 minutes in a world of Burton-esque antics, but without much of a payoff.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 9, 2024

I was going to say that this feels like a first draft script, but it doesn't even feel like that. This feels like two or three first draft scripts stitched together.

| Nov 5, 2024

It’s never overtly scary, but spooky enough to be a part of the Halloween media rotation for years to come.

| Nov 3, 2024

What makes this film ultimately work — and what keeps the viewer from getting lost in the labyrinthine subplots — is the onscreen familial chemistry between Ryder, O’Hara, and Ortega.

| Oct 28, 2024

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a mixed bag of chills and thrills.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 24, 2024

A sequel in which Burton recovers his stylistic seal to expand the macabre imagery of his eccentric character, but its horror comedy is often trapped in an empty repetition that steals its soul and buries any trace of surprise. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 23, 2024