Admittedly less eccentric and more classic in style than some of Burton's acclaimed earlier works, Frankenweenie is still chock-full of the filmmaker's old dark magic.

| Jul 12, 2018

... Frankenweenie beautifully merges the old with the new as it also celebrates filmmaking both literally and fictionally with its relatable protagonist.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2017

Tim Burton's most enjoyable movie in a long time.

| Jan 7, 2013

It was wise to make the film in black and white, and 3D adds to the charm of this sweetly retro experience. Sparky is hereby added to my list of the cinema's most endearing woofers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 25, 2012

An entertainment that is at once old-fashioned and supremely modern, liable to satisfy nostagic parents as much as their children.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2012

Clinching the film's spell is its implied exhortation to the kid in each of us.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2012

Perhaps too scary for young kids and too cute for adults, Frankenweenie is nonetheless a hugely likable pet project.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 17, 2012

Very sweet, very funny, really quite touching and exquisitely handmade, by a film lover with humour and a heart, for a like-minded audience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 15, 2012

Tim Burton is back on old-fashioned Stygian form with Frankenweenie. It's an animated children's film sufficiently dark and twisted to provide adult amusement too.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 12, 2012

Tim Burton loves paying homage to other movies. Here, just for a change, he does so to one of his own.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 12, 2012

For Burton all animation is reanimation, and Frankenweenie's magnificent puppets ... look eerily conscious: stop-motion really is the perfect medium for this story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 11, 2012

Burton's best film since 1994's Ed Wood or even 1990's Edward Scissorhands.

| Oct 10, 2012

A likable film, though not a sensational development in Tim Burton's career.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2012

This is a Tim Burton film with something to say. And that's a rare and precious thing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 10, 2012

It's probably too early to peg Frankenweenie as Burton's comeback vehicle, but it's certainly the director's best movie in twenty years.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Oct 5, 2012

Finally, a stop-motion, animated Halloween film that rivals Tim Burton and Henry Selick's 1993 dark classic, The Nightmare Before Christmas. And of the two, Frankenweenie is the better film, though it might be heretical to say.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 5, 2012

This 3-D, black-and-white "family" comedy is the year's most inventive, endearing animated feature.

| Oct 5, 2012

Designed to appeal to both discriminating adults and older kids, the gorgeous, black-and-white stop-motion film is a fresh, clever and affectionate love letter to classic horror movies.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 5, 2012

The most Tim Burton-y of the director's films, and not just because it contains a vast catalog of references to his own movies - everything from "Edward Scissorhands'' to the underrated 1989 "Batman.''

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 5, 2012

"Frankenweenie" may just be a wacky horror cartoon, but it's an awfully good wacky horror cartoon. Frighteningly good, you might say.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 5, 2012