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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

2007

Tim Burton

Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Sacha Baron Cohen ...

6.8

68,510

Musical. Thriller Based on the hit Broadway musical which tells the infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Paul Arendt BBC	"'Sweeney Todd' is much like one of Mrs Lovett's meat pies: satisfying, drenched in blood and full of surprises"	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"'Sweeney Todd' is the perfect marriage of filmmaker and material (...) Burton's fascination with the macabre and the mischievous has found a perfect outlet in this lavish Grand Guignol slaughterfest (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Tim Gray Variety	"The film is unlike anything Hollywood has ever seen — gruesome but smart, melodramatic but witty, quirky but emotional"	POS
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"The movie is so finely minced a mixture of Sondheim’s original melodrama and Burton’s signature spicing that it’s difficult to think of any other filmmaker so naturally suited for the job"	POS
United States	Paul Whitelaw Den of Geek	"Darker, moodier and more deranged than any of his other films, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is Burton’s most disturbingly delightful film to date.	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"An entertaining, unscary digital ride through the London Dungeon, accompanied by classy music. Likable: but no masterpiece (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Carina Chocano Los Angeles Times	"Tim Burton's scaled-down adaptation chooses style over substance. The result, however, is still a pretty enjoyable film"	NEU

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