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March 23, 2019

How Quirk Killed Tim Burton’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”

Burton's dark, misguided adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic children's novel ages particularly poorly among the rest of his works.
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March 18, 2019

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Late-Period Tim Burton

Tim Burton's recent films are dismissed as confused (dark) shadows of his career heights, but they contain brief glimmers of the filmmaker's return to form.
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March 16, 2019

With “Big Fish,” Tim Burton Told His Last, Greatest Tall Tale

Tim Burton's last great film was a mythic tall tale that anchored his dark whimsy in something more sentimental and moving.
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March 12, 2019

Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas” is All Sorts of Delightful and Scary

Henry Selick's stop-motion holiday fable is a spooky classic, thanks to Tim Burton's macabre quirks and an array of catchy tunes.
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March 9, 2019

With “Batman Returns”, Tim Burton Unleashed A Dark Superhero Circus

Tim Burton's superhero sequel saw the endlessly strange auteur run away with big studio money to make the most relentlessly weird comic book film ever.