The Nightmare Before Christmas Reviews
Empire Magazine Australasia
In the 13 years since it was released to a predictably puzzled family audience, Tim Burton's macabre stop motion musical has wound its way through cult affection (and survived mall-Goth appropriation) to earn its rightful place as a genuine classic.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Top CriticThis cautionary fable (Be True to Your Ghoulish Self) may be a little too twisted for little kids but anyone 8 or older will spot the friendly glint behind jack's empty eye sockets.
I'm not sure I've ever seen a fantasy film that's at once so visually amazing and so emotionally dead.
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| Original Score: C
Common Sense Media
Tim Burton magic with just a touch of scariness.
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| Original Score: 5/5
LarsenOnFilm
...endlessly delightful, even as it deals in icky bugs and severed limbs.
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| Original Score: 4/4
A work of grand visual wit, clever songs, funny gags and genuine pathos, it is perhaps the greatest stop-motion animated film ever, a painstaking style of model animation that computers have all but completely done away with.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Cinema em Cena
O tom divertidamente sombrio da narrative, associado a uma direção de arte magnífica e à ótima trilha de Elfman, acaba resultando num conto de fadas que deve tanto aos Grimm quanto ao Expressionismo Alemão.
| Original Score: 4/5
A fun house of funereal glamour.
Irish Times
The thin story (the denizens of Halloween Town take over Christmas) is overpowered by the deliciousness of the images.
Killer Movie Reviews
inspiring, wacky, and infused with Burton's unique romanticism suffused with, but not subsumed by, a gothic sensibility
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| Original Score: 5/5
Groucho Reviews
A twisted revamp of Rankin-Bass by way of Edward Gorey. [Blu-ray]
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
7M Pictures
a brilliant feat of movie making
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| Original Score: 4/5
Film4
This hugely entertaining horror fable for all the family might suffer from pacing problems, but it's also a true original that still stands out from today's CGI-heavy crowd.
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| Original Score: 4/5
The set designs are ingenious and the songs (music and lyrics by Danny Elfman) are fairly good.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
The result, though refreshingly different from mainstream animated fare, is ultimately more trick than treat.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
The dazzling techniques employed here create a strikinglook that's never been seen in such sustained form, making this a unique curio that will appeal to kids and film enthusiasts alike.
Urban Cinefile
Still as fresh as the day it was released in 1993 and now in dazzling 3D, Tim Burton's stop-motion animated Nightmare Before Christmas is a compelling feast of twisted characters and imagery
Shadows on the Wall
The characters are vivid and often hilariously revolting.... Visually, the film is absolutely gorgeous.
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| Original Score: 4/5
The hippest of all holiday classics, the 1993 release rendered anew in 3-D format remains a postmodern three-ring circus of morbid humor, eye-popping puppet animation and show-stopping songs.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
Is it cooler than ever in 3-D? Well, sure. But essentially, it's the same movie that drew Tim Burton fans into theaters in 1993.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4
