| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B+ |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie |
"The movie -- and Depp's performance -- is on a constant sugar high, which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't." more... |
B- |
Boston Globe
Ty Burr |
"Tim Burton hits the sweet spot..." more... |
B |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory succeeds in spite of Johnny Depp's performance, which should have been the high point of the movie." more... |
B |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington |
"It's full of witty or awesome scenes, flights of fancy and characters either totally, lovably sweet or outrageously, humorously rotten." more... |
A |
| E! Online |
"What a true cinematic delight." more... |
A |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman |
"...Burton's finest movie since Ed Wood..." more... |
A |
filmcritic.com
Christopher Null |
"The sets are strikingly similar to the original, but everything about Burton's movie is more polished, more produced, and simply less heartfelt." more... |
B- |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"A winning, charming, very droll children's film for the whole family." more... |
A |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"...splendidly imaginative and visually stunning..." more... |
A- |
New York Times
A.O. Scott |
"...wondrous and flawed..." more... |
B- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"The mixture of the gothic and the jaunty makes Charlie and the Chocolate Factory a sometimes topsy-turvy experience. more... |
B |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"Johnny Depp's deliciously demented take on Willy Wonka, the candy man of Roald Dahl's book, demands to be seen." more... |
B |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"...director Tim Burton does his best work in years." more... |
B+ |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...disappointing." more... |
C |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"...love it or hate it, Depp's sadistic and snippy Wonka is audacious." more... |
A- |
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