... Tim Burton’s loving film biography... is perhaps the most loving portrait of a filmmaker ever put on screen.

| Apr 26, 2025

Is this Tim Burton’s best movie? It might just be!

| Sep 5, 2024

It champions the power of, and passion for, filmmaking by exploring it through the eyes of one of the worst filmmakers to have ever made a motion picture. Burton uses some truly terrible films to inspire what may be his best work.

| Aug 16, 2024

While Ed Wood probably won't do the kind of business enjoyed by Edward Scissorhands, this deliciously bizarre bio-pic should instantly become a movie cultist's treasure.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 19, 2024

The sweet center of the movie is Wood's resurrection of horror actor Bela Lugosi, a despairing drug addict who is played brilliantly by Martin Landau.

| Jan 19, 2024

What happens when a good filmmaker tries to make a great film about a terrible filmmaker. In the case of Tim Burton's Ed Wood, you get an odd and oddly unsatisfying film with occasional flourishes of brilliance.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 19, 2024

It's pathetic, but Burton does a good job of keeping it entertaining. You might not want to be any of these people, but you don't mind watching.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 19, 2024

The film is not only a hilarious satire of Wood and his low-budget antics, but also a loving paean to dreamers everywhere.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 19, 2024

Tim Burton’s best movie, this unique gem is a gentle valentine that celebrates the creative spirit, no matter how misguided that particular spirit happens to be.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 27, 2023

Ed Wood doesn’t really give us the inside of Wood’s head, but it does treat imaginatively a number of Wood movies that retain a certain fascination ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 7, 2022

Ed Wood is nevertheless one of the most convincing evocations of the old Hollywood, perhaps (paradoxically) because the re-created universe is so marginal, lacking so much of the traditional Hollywood glamour.

| May 3, 2022

One of the most hilarious and poignant movies of the year. A real surprise.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 14, 2022

Winner of two Academy Awards including Best Supporting Actor and Best Makeup, the irony in Ed Wood is that the worst director of all time brought out the best of the man and what many consider Tim Burtons best film.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 14, 2022

Burton has managed to make something altogether unique - a compassionate farce - that can be enjoyed even by people who have never heard of Wood, who would never willingly submit themselves to a Wood work.

| Oct 26, 2020

Landau is simply brilliant.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020

A good story about the (out) of the star system in Hollywood in 1950's. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 12, 2019

Ed Wood [is] a comedy of the ridiculous in which the ridiculous turns unexpectedly sublime.

| Original Score: A | Nov 9, 2018

Burton succeeds in creating a benign parallel world where the last are the first and the insulted and injured become the recipients of all-star tributes.

| Aug 15, 2018

Just daft enough and just deft enough to satisfy high-culture and low-culture aficionados alike.

| Apr 10, 2018

Burton imitates Wood 's films brilliantly, and Wood 's chaotic lifestyle is brought to the screen with brio.

| Mar 20, 2018