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

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

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

| Jun 17, 2008

A delightful and delicate comic fable.

| May 8, 2008

It remains curiously hollow.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 26, 2003

Mr. Burton invests awe-inspiring ingenuity into the process of reinventing something very small.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 20, 2003

Burton's richly entertaining update of the Frankenstein story is the year's most comic, romantic and haunting film fantasy.

| May 12, 2001

Enchantment on the cutting edge, a dark yet heartfelt portrait of the artist as a young mannequin.

| Jan 1, 2000

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp come close to achieving perfection in this dream tale.

| Jan 1, 2000

Depp is perfectly cast, Burton builds a surrealistically funny cul-de-sac world, and there are some very funny performances from grownups Dianne Wiest, Kathy Baker and Alan Arkin.

| Jan 1, 2000

Burton has not yet found the storytelling and character-building strength to go along with his pictorial flair.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The film has an unapologetically adolescent purity about it that transcends what would ordinarily be the shortcomings of its script.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The romanticism has a personal dimension -- for Edward is, of course, Burton's surreal portrait of himself as an artist: a wounded child converting his private darkness into outlandish pop visions. Like Edward, he finds the light.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 7, 1990