film criticism by maryann johanson | celebrating 25 years: 1997–2022
The most soulless of the live-action Disney remakes yet, weighted down by too many blah characters, too much convoluted plot, unconvincing CGI, and a message that doesn’t say what it thinks it does.
The Tim Burton-est movie in a long while, not merely because it embodies all those wonderfully weird and humanist Burton attitudes but also because only Burton would think to make a stop-motion film in glorious, creamy, black-and-white.
New York Post critic Kyle Smith cries foul at the fact that Kristen Stewart is so well paid for Twilight, but he seems to miss a key point…
Or will the industry double-down and take even bigger gambles with $500 million movies in coming years?
I guest on The Picture Show, now available to download or stream…
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Yes, this was prompted by Dark Shadows…
Hoorah for Tim Burton and the new nadir of narcissistic awfulness he achieves here. Dark Shadows dares to be nothing but the wisp of its own conceit.
How can we make Tim Burton stop?
