Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Reviews
November 28, 2020
More visually stunning than musically memorable, but it nevertheless presents a grandly ghastly tale of love and retribution in a style unlike any before it.
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| Original Score: 8/10
November 4, 2020
Burton has never been so scary. [Full review in Spanish]
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| Original Score: 5/5
September 24, 2020
Easily one of Tim Burton's best films.
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| Original Score: 3.0/4.0
November 15, 2019
Tim Burton and company have indeed reinvented a wondrous work with an extraordinary vibrancy and vivacity that is to die for. So make a date to meet up on Fleet Street where morality and madness meet.
June 6, 2019
A brilliant mix of beauty and horror, shot in near-monochromatic tones by cinematographer Dariusz Wolski and deftly blended and juxtaposed by Burton.
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| Original Score: 4/4
January 29, 2019
It keeps getting bloodier by the scene, yet remains curiously engaging.
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| Original Score: 2/4
November 3, 2018
Sondheim has hitherto been ill-served by film adaptations of his stage work, but Burton has done a formidable job of trimming and re-working the original play. A visual and aural treat.
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| Original Score: 4/5
August 23, 2018
Without any warmth and humor at all, how are you meant to care? I'm not saying you always have to care about someone in a movie - not at all - but here the story is so ludicrous that, unless you can, why bother?
April 28, 2016
Revenge stories don't get a pass just because they are about revenge. If there is a genuine meaning to the legend of Benjamin Barker and what he must go through, poor Tim Burton is no closer to understanding it than his predecessors were.
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| Original Score: 2/4
January 2, 2015
This dark operatic movie looks like Burton meant every bit of it, that he shared this story's longing for death and night and blood.
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| Original Score: 5/5
September 30, 2014
Sweeney Todd is maybe a bit too Grand for its own good. It's all danse, no macabre.
November 17, 2011
This is grand-scale studio-work at its most beguiling.
Original Score: 3/5
July 14, 2011
This magnificently realized musical from Stephen Sondheim contains the right blend of emotional pathos, stunning visuals and accessible songs.
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| Original Score: 5/5
May 27, 2011
It's gross but will it gross? Burton and Depp's cannibal musical is an especially acquired taste - Oliver! reimagined by Eli Roth. Brave, brutal... ballads?
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| Original Score: 3/5
October 5, 2010
Looks incredible, like a moving painting, but it's absolutely mediocre...
July 7, 2010
It's rare that entertainment with such a lofty pedigree also offers generous portions of things people actually like: revenge, violence and viscera, a protagonist we can root for, occasional humor, nice tunes. Is that so much to ask?
June 12, 2010
Sweeney Todd may just be that rare musical with broad appeal to audiences who might normally say they don't care for the genre.
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| Original Score: 7/10
August 27, 2009
Elevates a rollicking gorefest into a dark work of art
August 14, 2009
This is a remarkable piece of work for people who like their genres all mashed together in a meat grinder.
Original Score: A-
February 2, 2009
Sweeney Todd is a throat-slasher of a motion picture. It creates a new genre -- the slasher musical. Adapted from the Tony-winning Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim, it's the tuneful tale of cutthroat's revenge.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5