Ed Wood (1994)
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Reviews Counted:55
Fresh:50
Rotten:5
Average Rating:7.9/10
Consensus: Tim Burton and Johnny Depp team up to fete the life and work of cult hero Ed Wood, with typically strange and wonderful results.
Runtime: 2 hrs 7 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A stranger-than-fiction true story of the early career of Edward D. Wood, Jr., the undisputed "worst movie director of all time," Tim Burton's ED WOOD is nevertheless a delightful, zany, and... [More]
Starring: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Bill Murray
Director: Tim Burton
Reviews for Ed Wood
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The film's greatest achievement is to avoid the easy, patronizing laughs and instead see the near heroic qualities of a patently untalented artist. Full Review |
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It certainly succeeds as a funny, touching tribute to tenacity, energy, ambition and friendship. Full Review |
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A glorious homage to the power of film in general and one of Burton's finest moments. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Typically, Burton's storytelling is sometimes erratic, but his emphasis on humanizing marginal characters -- a project that seems central to his artistic agenda -- is as strong as ever. Full Review |
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Beguiling rather than thrilling, oddly charming instead of transporting, meaning that Disney will have its work cut out for it with what is at heart a cult movie and a film buff's dream. Full Review |
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3/5 |
It's refreshing to see Burton in a relatively upbeat mood, but he picked the wrong story to give an optimistic spin. Full Review |
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7/10 |
I loved the acting, Johnny Depp and Landau are awesome, the B&W look is perfect and the story is kind of cute, but where is the genius in this flick? Am I missing something? Full Review |
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[Tim Burton's] own jazz-hands dance to the spirit of movie-making. Full Review |
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A- |
Droll and witty, Burton's tribute evokes the career of Hollywood's "worst" director by making a most stylishly polished production Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
If you love movies, you've got a little Ed Wood inside you. Full Review |
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B+ |
Tim Burton, fidèle à son talent et à sa réputation, transforme un scénario déjà bien concocté en un film des plus divertissants Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
A gentle valentine that celebrates the creative spirit, no matter how misguided that particular spirit happens to be. Full Review |
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4/4 |
This delightful film focuses on the more telling years when Edward D. Wood did what he did to become who he is... Full Review |
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[It] remains the greatest movie about the pleasures and hardships of independent filmmaking. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Depp's magnificent performance, plus Burton's love of his subject make for a wonderful film. Landau is magnificent as Bela Lugosi. A great film that celebrates the little filmmakers who dreamed big.
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4/4 |
"Strangely compelling and inspiring..." Full Review |
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5/5 |
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4.5/5 |
Landau's Lugosi is an alternately amusing and heartbreaking character who is given one last taste of life while in orbit around Wood's infectious mania Full Review |
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4/4 |
Hilarious and enormously entertaining. Full Review |
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5/5 |
True or not, the film is brilliant in every capacity %u2013 rich, warm and outrageously funny. Full Review |
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January 09, 2006:
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