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"You've been cloistered away up in that castle too long."

Edward Scissorhands

"You've been cloistered away up in that castle too long."

Happy 25th birthday, Edward Scissorhands! Tim Burton has made more accomplished, more artistically sophisticated films. But if I had to sketch the anatomy of Burton's work, Edward Scissorhands would be its big beating heart. What could be more timely than to watch Edward Scissorhands with the family? It&

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Alissa Wilkinson on Tim Burton in Blunderland

"Why was I... bored?" I haven't seen Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland yet, and Alissa Wilkinson isn't convincing me to hurry out and change that. Have you seen it? What was your impression of Burton's latest?

Looking Elsewhere

Specials: No Country for Old Men, The Golden Compass, and Tim Burton

The Coens and The Golden Compass You can now download my conversation with radio show host Paul Edwards as we discuss the Coen Brothers'No Country for Old Men... and then the controversy surrounding The Golden Compass. * The Coens... They're Not Nihilists Among people who write about

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

"There is no place I know to compare with pure imagination." Gene Wilder sang that dreamy refrain when he played Willy Wonka, the candy-making madman in the beloved but creepy 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, based on Roald Dahl's book Charlie and the

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Greydanus on "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"

Steven D. Greydanus has posted his mixed review of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. No one but Burton could possibly have so perfectly nailed Dahl’s blend of whimsical fantasy and withering comeuppance, or the Dickensian glee and extravagance of its morality-play tableau, with abject poverty and decency lavishly rewarded