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90Gorgeous filmmaking that brims over with funhouse thrills and ravishing romance.
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88This is the best-looking horror film since Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula."
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88This is a very bloody fantasy (reds do eke their way into the black-and-blues), but it's hard to think of another film with as many severed heads whose overall tone is so sweet.
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80There isn't a bankable Hollywood director with a flintier sense of aesthetic integrity.
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80It is thrilling to look at, and that's more than one can say for the majority of pictures out there.
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80At its best it's a marvel: bold, exciting and full of visions.
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80Sleepy Hollow may be late for Halloween, but this trick is a real treat.
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80An entertainingly eccentric horror tale that envelopes the audience in a dreamy and bloody nightmare.
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Visually sumptuous and playfully creepy.
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75Lots of brilliant filmmaking and high-spirited acting, at least until the story turns repetitious and formulaic in the last 30 minutes.
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75As a horror movie, even one inspired by the kitschy Hammer horror films of the 1950s, it's disappointing.
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75There must be nine or 10 thwacks to the neck throughout Sleepy Hollow, and Burton finds a different way to make the resulting severed noggin fall as though you'd forgotten the last one.
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75It has a dickens of a time telling a story.
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70A triumph of genre filmmaking.
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70The look of Burton's Gothic dream landscape, both lulling and energizing, is vested with so much power that it could almost substitute for narrative drive.
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70There's so little going on with either the film's story or its characters, however, that there is plenty of time to get lost in cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki's eerily beautiful visuals.
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70Even though it delivers on frights and special effects, and is well-acted and gorgeous to look at, never really surprises us.
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70More creepy and flesh-crawling than overwhelmingly gory, it nevertheless takes pride in characters who get splattered with blood as often as take-out fries get doused with catsup.
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70In between all this head-scratching nonsense, Sleepy Hollow can be fun, usually whenever the Headless Horseman shows up for swordplay that's better than anything in "The Phantom Menace."
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67Little more than a lavish, art-directed slasher movie.
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63Burton's films are endearing and impassioned despite the fact that they generally fail to tell a whole story, create a single rounded character, or inspire even mild laughs or chills.
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63Despite its flaws, Sleepy Hollow stays with you, the dark beauty of its images powerful enough to invade your dreams.
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63A feast of imagery.
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63Your body's sitting there in the theater, but it feels as if your head is someplace else.
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63An uneven, if lively, diversion.
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63The film, though seldom sleepy, is often hollow.
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60Hasty pacing makes for a rich and exciting movie, but not an especially spooky or spellbinding one.
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Turns the tale of the Headless Horseman into the pre-tabloid story of a rampaging serial killer.
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60A ferocious yet lyrical piece of filmmaking--an enchanted bloodbath.
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60In Burton's hands, Washington Irving's spooky classic is reincarnated as an overripe, grisly Goth cartoon.
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58It all comes together to be a remarkably dull movie.
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50A gorgeous screenful of period eye candy.
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50Flawed at its core but stunning nonetheless.
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40Tim Burton's new movie is gorgeous -- shot by shot it may be the most impressive thing he's done.
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25A film with no theatrical core and no integrity in the writing, acting or storytelling.
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EmmabelE.9One of the most greatest films I have ever watched...Its like the twin movie of dracula... Combination of fun,romance and horror.
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HannahH.9I loved this movie! Almost everything was perfect, besides a few things that the editor should have caught, but I suppose every movie has that.
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MarkS.8Really enjoyed this. Worth owning. Visually brilliant, acting is high quality all the way through.