An entertaining piece of graphic poetry. When the blood starts to spurt, sputter and spit, it’s in just the right shade — not so thick and crimson as to be off-putting but not so fake and thin as to have no impact.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 9, 2023

A big, bold musical that functions as an upscale slasher film: It’s bloody but also bloody good.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 28, 2023

Director Tim Burton does take an iconoclastic approach to the material: here is a musical where characters whisper rather than belting to the back row. Burtons approach, while unusual by musical standards, is precisely what makes the movie work.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 20, 2022

Burton delivers quite the engaging musical that overflows with his signature aesthetic style. Sweeney Todd leaves its mark on the genre. [Full review in Spanish}

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 19, 2021

More visually stunning than musically memorable, but it nevertheless presents a grandly ghastly tale of love and retribution in a style unlike any before it.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 28, 2020

Burton has never been so scary. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 4, 2020

Easily one of Tim Burton's best films.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 24, 2020

Tim Burton and company have indeed reinvented a wondrous work with an extraordinary vibrancy and vivacity that is to die for. So make a date to meet up on Fleet Street where morality and madness meet.

| Nov 15, 2019

A brilliant mix of beauty and horror, shot in near-monochromatic tones by cinematographer Dariusz Wolski and deftly blended and juxtaposed by Burton.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 6, 2019

It keeps getting bloodier by the scene, yet remains curiously engaging.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 29, 2019

Sondheim has hitherto been ill-served by film adaptations of his stage work, but Burton has done a formidable job of trimming and re-working the original play. A visual and aural treat.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2018

Without any warmth and humor at all, how are you meant to care? I'm not saying you always have to care about someone in a movie - not at all - but here the story is so ludicrous that, unless you can, why bother?

| Aug 23, 2018

Revenge stories don't get a pass just because they are about revenge. If there is a genuine meaning to the legend of Benjamin Barker and what he must go through, poor Tim Burton is no closer to understanding it than his predecessors were.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 28, 2016

This dark operatic movie looks like Burton meant every bit of it, that he shared this story's longing for death and night and blood.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 2, 2015

Sweeney Todd is maybe a bit too Grand for its own good. It's all danse, no macabre.

| Sep 30, 2014

This is grand-scale studio-work at its most beguiling.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

This magnificently realized musical from Stephen Sondheim contains the right blend of emotional pathos, stunning visuals and accessible songs.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 14, 2011

It's gross but will it gross? Burton and Depp's cannibal musical is an especially acquired taste - Oliver! reimagined by Eli Roth. Brave, brutal... ballads?

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 27, 2011

Looks incredible, like a moving painting, but it's absolutely mediocre...

| Oct 5, 2010

It's rare that entertainment with such a lofty pedigree also offers generous portions of things people actually like: revenge, violence and viscera, a protagonist we can root for, occasional humor, nice tunes. Is that so much to ask?

| Jul 7, 2010