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Ed Wood

1994

Tim Burton

Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Patricia Arquette, Sarah Jessica Parker ...

7.4

45,718

Comedy. Drama Acclaimed filmmaker Tim Burton brings to life the true and hilarious story of Ed Wood (Johnny Depp), the wackiest and worst movie director of all time. When Ed Wood pulls together his ragtag band, including has-been horror star Bela Lugosi (Martin Landau), a cross-dressing actor named Bunny (Bill Murray) and Ed's no-talent girlfriend (Sarah Jessica Parker), bad moviemaking and hilarious hijinx follow! Ed Wood refuses to let minor ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"[A] very good film about a very bad film maker (...) Depp isn't best known as a comic actor, but he gives a witty and captivating performance"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Outrageously disjointed and just as outrageously entertaining, the picture stands as a successful outsider's tribute to a failed kindred spirit"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"What Burton has made is a film which celebrates Wood more than it mocks him, and which celebrates, too, the zany spirit of 1950s exploitation films (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"Making a movie about the life of Ed Wood certainly qualifies as an impossible dream, but Burton has pulled it off with wit, imagination and something amazingly close to grace."	POS
United Kingdom	Mark Salisbury Empire	"This is perhaps Tim Burton's finest film to date, a delightful, funny, bizarre, touching, magical, moving insight into one of cinema's most maligned filmmakers (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Derek Malcolm The Guardian	"Plenty of movies celebrate the third rate. Very few do so with such sympathy and understanding"	POS
United States	Gene Siskel Chicago Reader	"One of those rare films that communicates the exquisite joy of the moviemaking process"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"The beauty of Ed Wood is that Burton loves these losers for who they are"	POS

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