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Sleepy Hollow

1999

Tim Burton

Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon ...

6.9

86,595

Mystery. Adventure. Horror. Fantasy Near the end of the 18th Century. Constable Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) earns the disfavour of the courts in New York City for insisting that scientific methods be used to solve crimes rather than guilt by assumption. In reproach, he is assigned to solve a series of beheadings in the remote village of Sleepy Hollow. Crane dismisses the villagers notion that the murders are being conducted by the ghost of a headless Hessian horseman and ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Even when the narrative stalls from too many detours and decapitations, Sleepy Hollow is gorgeous filmmaking that brims over with fun-house thrills and ravishing romance"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"As beautifully crafted a film as anyone could ever hope to see, Tim Burton’s 'Sleepy Hollow' is an entertainingly eccentric horror tale that envelopes the audience in a dreamy and bloody nightmare."	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"The wobbly plot might not have mattered if the film’s macabre visual lyricism were more startling"	NEU
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"History will recognize the rich imagination and secret tenderness of Burton's best films"	POS
United Kingdom	Ali Barclay BBC	"It is extremely rewarding visually (...) Depp's performance as Crane, is a sympathetic one, earnest and intelligent (...) The pace and tension are both kept up throughout the film (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"It doesn't feel like the work of an artist in any way (...) It's a film with no theatrical core and no integrity in the writing, acting or storytelling. The jokes aren't funny. The tone is uncertain"	NEG
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"An exquisitely mounted effort (...) The film gets creepier and creepier as it goes on and Burton, doing what he does best, relentlessly cranks up the volume on the weirdness"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"What it depends upon is Burton's gift for bizarre and eccentric special effects, and a superb performance by Johnny Depp (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Bob McCabe Empire	"A beautiful slice of fear. This is Tim Burton's world - we should be grateful just to spend a couple of hours in it (.…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"An engaging entertainment, both handsome and scary, with excellent special effects."	POS
United States	Adam Chitwood Collider	"An underrated gem (...) This should-be horror classic. It’s spooky, it’s scary, it’s gorgeous"	POS
United States	Jack Mathews New York Daily News	"Visually arresting"	POS

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