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Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas Reviews

The Nightmare Before Christmas is unique and timeless, a magical adventure that’ll delight the senses and steal your heart.

| Nov 14, 2023

One of the best films of all-time, the gorgeous stop-motion animation and story of Jack Skellington longing for something more leaves us breathless, happy and fulfilled.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 30, 2023

In the days of computer-animated films that occasionally appear no different than your average videogame, looking back, we must appreciate that Tim Burton and Henry Selick created something so wonderfully original.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 5, 2023

In 1993, The Nightmare Before Christmas premiered to moderate success but has since gone on to become a huge money making franchise for Disney.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 29, 2023

The playfully macabre humor of Tim Burton is deftly brought to life through the old-school magic of stop-motion animation by director Henry Selick...

| Jan 7, 2023

Producer Tim Burton's imaginatively dark, musical fantasy and original yet spooky stop-motion animated tale was directed by Burton's colleague at Disney Animation Henry Selick. It was also known as "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas" and served

| Original Score: A+ | Oct 12, 2022

The movie is a perfect Halloween perennial, just short enough not to wear out its welcome and just long enough to brushstroke its Pagan vs. Christian subtext.

| Original Score: A | Sep 20, 2022

The Nightmare Before Christmas is an analysis of why Christmas is so special and magic beyond just the wrapping on the outside.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 28, 2022

Films dont get more imaginative or original than this. The Nightmare Before Christmas is not just a good movieits everything we go to the movies for in the first place.

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

This is a timeless classic that still entertains. I love this film.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 22, 2021

This in an incredible film. One of my favorite films without question.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 22, 2021

This was fun, the music is great and the animation is fascinating given all of the work that goes into it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2021

The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of those rare holiday films that seems to transcend generations...

| Apr 14, 2021

On a visual level, the movie qualifies as poetry in stop-motion.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 24, 2021

Composer Danny Elfman is one of the greatest film composers of all time and performs the singing voice of Jack Skellington. It's an extremely catchy score...

| Nov 4, 2020

An uncommonly dark Disney release, yet it's also full of comedy and adventure.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 21, 2020

A weird and wonderful cast, including the two-faced drama king of a mayor and the disgustingly delightful Oogie Boogie, the visuals plus Danny Elfman's marvelous music and lyrics are simultaneously horrifying and heartwarming.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 23, 2020

The totality and tangibility of the world that Selick and his animators extract from Burton's lovely spidery drawings is one of the major achievements of animation history.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 28, 2018

I'm blown away by just the construction of the scenes, and by all of the effects that have been incorporated to make everything move fluidly; and there's also this charming imperfection to the animation that just makes it so gorgeous.

| Original Score: A | Apr 13, 2018

Burton's new excursion in the world of comic nightmare will prove a rare pre-Christmas goblin's feast.

| Apr 13, 2018

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