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Ed Wood Reviews
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
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] a comedy of the ridiculous in which the ridiculous turns unexpectedly sublime.
| Original Score: A | Nov 9, 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
Beguiling rather than thrilling, oddly charming instead of transporting, meaning that Disney will have its work cut out for it with what is at heart a cult movie and a film buff's dream.
Full Review | Oct 5, 2008
It certainly succeeds as a funny, touching tribute to tenacity, energy, ambition and friendship.
| Jan 26, 2006
Mr. Depp isn't best known as a comic actor, but he gives a witty and captivating performance, bringing wonderful buoyancy to this crazy role.
Full Review | May 20, 2003
Outrageously disjointed and just as outrageously entertaining, the picture stands as a successful outsider's tribute to a failed kindred spirit.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 12, 2001
In his finest, funniest, most poignant film to date, Tim Burton plays cinematic alchemist, turning drive-in schlock into movie gold.
Full Review | Jan 1, 2000
This Ed Wood is dead wood.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 1, 2000
The movie's black and white photography convincingly recaptures the look and feel of 1950s sleaze, including some of the least convincing special effects in movie history.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000
Making a movie about the life of Ed Wood certainly qualifies as an impossible dream, but Burton has pulled it off with wit, imagination and something amazingly close to grace.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000
A glorious homage to the power of film in general and one of Burton's finest moments.
| Jan 1, 2000
An entertaining, oddly affectionate look at the cross-dressing grade-Z moviemaker.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000
Burton has evoked the surface of Ed Wood's life, but in a story about a man who loves angora and frilly panties, he has barely unbuttoned Wood's uniform.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000
The strangest biographical film ever made is also one of the most charming, melancholy and quirkily humorous films of the year.
| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000