With equal portions of humor and heart, this inventive, touching, poetic fairy tale is highly memorable.

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

For a guy who has made some really great movies, this is very much one of Burton’s best and most heart-wrenching.

| Sep 5, 2024

The finale packs an unforgettable emotional wallop, assisted by Danny Elfman's gloriously magical score.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 9, 2024

This is one of Burton’s best and it’s one of aesthetic power and emotional resonance. It’s a magical odyssey of invention and human emotion, with a distinguishable tone and look. This one is for the weirdos.

| Aug 31, 2023

Tim Burton's most iconic film is a fairy tale about the way art is used to reflect on both traditional society and the artist's inability to fit into it.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 26, 2023

... this paean to misfit outcasts and misunderstood artists is ultimately a magical and melancholy fairy tale for the modern world.

| Jan 7, 2023

Burton was clearly in line with a poetic atmosphere but it escapes him in the end. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 2, 2022

It looks and feels original and new; startling, yet at the same time comforting.

| Sep 22, 2022

Edward Scissorhands is a flashy and entertaining apologia from an artist who has not accumulated enough work to justify such self-concern.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 24, 2022

The highest praise must be reserved for Mr. Depp, who, as the hero, manages to evince a gentle charm in spite of being encrusted with several ounces of make-up.

| Apr 6, 2022

Long a courageous actor, Depp inhabits a character that by all accounts should have been a freak or caricature.

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

One-of-a-kind fairytale for adults from director Tim Burton.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 15, 2020

Watching the film is like turning the pages of a small child's book which has very pretty pictures and two lines of large print spelling out the story.

| Jul 19, 2018

With Burton's surreal illustrative ingenuity, Depp and Ryder's career-making performances, and a story filled with simplicity, complexity, and intangible wizardry that stands the test of time, Edward Scissorhands is one of the greatest films ever made.

| Dec 28, 2017

Depp cuts a haunting figure, while Wiest is typically excellent. The rest of the actors are forced to play characters who are either underdeveloped or overcooked, and the broadness of Burton's approach eventually leads to a wholly unsatisfying resolution.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 24, 2015

Burton's modern fairytale has an almost palpably personal feel: it is told gently, subtly and with infinite sympathy for an outsider who charms the locals but then inadvertently arouses their baser instincts.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 17, 2014

Between this masterpiece and that other Ed (Wood), TIm Burton and Johnny Depp are at their dual-career best. Ed Wood is about how insane Hollywood is -- and Edward Scissorhands delivers the pure magic that, once in a rare while, escapes the place.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2011

...perhaps the cinema's most enchanting parable about the misunderstood and alienated artist.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 25, 2008

... this sweet 1990 fantasy ... for the first time crystallized the latent themes in the director's work: the notion of the artist as outsider, of skills that make one special but at the same time different.

| Jul 7, 2008

An original movie, though not Tim Burton's best.

| Jun 17, 2008