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By Jamie Graham (285) for Total Film (3,532) on 26 May 2011

It's gross but will it gross? Burton and Depp's cannibal musical is an especially acquired taste - Oliver! reimagined by Eli Roth…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for Premiere (771) on 26 Dec 2010

The result is one of the odder and, certainly the most compelling of the short stream of Broadway-to-Hollywood transplants of recent years…

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By Felix Vasquez Jr. (1,949) for Cinema Crazed (1,907) on 04 Oct 2010

Looks incredible, like a moving painting, but it's absolutely mediocre…

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By Andy Spletzer (26) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 22 Sep 2010

Sometimes jaunty, often dark, and very stylized. In other words, it's a perfect fit for director Tim Burton…

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By Fernando F. Croce (840) for CinePassion (694) on 26 Aug 2009

Elevates a rollicking gorefest into a dark work of art…

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By Tony Macklin (521) for Fayetteville Free Weekly (88) on 02 Feb 2009

Sweeney Todd is a throat-slasher of a motion picture. It creates a new genre -- the slasher musical…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 17 Jan 2009

Helena Bonham Carter may be Burton's inamorata, but apart from that, she is perfectly cast, not as a vulgar fishwife type but as a petite beauty…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 17 Oct 2008

A considerable achievement even if, on balance, it's more of a Tim Burton phantasmagoria than a Sondheim fantasia…

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By Gail Pennington (25) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 17 Oct 2008

As unsettling as it is riveting. Even Sondheim aficionados will see the story with fresh eyes, unless those eyes are covered…

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By Scott Nash (692) for Three Movie Buffs (692) on 17 Oct 2008

[Burton's] vision of a dark and smoggy nineteenth century London, with muted colors, is perfect for the music and the story…

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By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

The movie may substitute Grand Guignol for laughs at times, but it's spectacularly stylized -- each throat-slashing exceptional -- persuasively…

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By James Christopher (268) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 17 Oct 2008

Burton was born to film this strange and spooky chamber piece…

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By Janos Gereben (77) for Entertainment Insiders (294) on 17 Oct 2008

It is grand guignol with music that will bewitch the uninitiated -- and probably outrage those who know and love the score, especially when…

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By Jean Lowerison (512) for San Diego Metropolitan (486) on 17 Oct 2008

Depp does about as well as anyone other than Len Cariou could with his one-note character. Bonham-Carter gives Mrs…

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By David Nusair (3,363) for Reel Film Reviews (3,339) on 17 Oct 2008

The film suffers from a relentless emphasis on bland, thoroughly forgettable musical numbers whose sameness inevitably lends the proceedings…

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By Brian Marder (35) for Hollywood.com (1,014) on 30 Sep 2008

Burton's juxtaposition of the musical numbers with horror is pretty much as entertaining as the medium of film can get…

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By Heather Huntington (72) for ReelzChannel.com (132) on 07 Sep 2008

In addition to branding Sweeney Todd with his signature look, Burton successfully takes advantage of the medium of film in his adaptation the musical…

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By Steve Winn (8) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Sep 2008

What looks good on paper contracts doesn't guarantee results…

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By Shawn Levy (1,238) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 31 Aug 2008

They've made a movie-movie of Sweeney Todd, and if you've got the stomach and ear for it, you'll be grateful…

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By Steve Biodrowski (334) for Cinefantastique (193) on 12 Jul 2008

A dark, brooding horror-musical-comedy that hits all the right notes…

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