Sleepy Hollow 1999

Critics score:
67 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Roger Ebert, At the Movies: The best-looking horror film since Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Visually astonishing. Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: A stunning visual experience. Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: History will recognize the rich imagination and secret tenderness of Burton's best films. Read more

Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: With the head-rollingly entertaining Sleepy Hollow, director Tim Burton returns to peak form, delivering the best Hammer horror movie that never was. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: An exquisitely mounted effort created to the exact specifications of an adroit director whose sensibility is truly bizarre, Sleepy Hollow is kind of an ultimate Tim Burton movie. Read more

Steven Rosen, Denver Post: Unpleasantly ugly. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A lavish, art-directed slasher movie. Read more

Jeff Giles, Newsweek: Bold, exciting and full of visions. Read more

Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Burton, for all his skill, never ranges beyond the thrills of the obvious; he doesn't enlarge the meaning of the horror he shows us, the way a Brian De Palma might. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Visually arresting. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The film suffers from tepid performances, feebly drawn characters, and a meandering narrative. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Danny Elfman's music is haunting and jaggedly elegiac, the perfect underpinning to the movie's look. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Sleepy Hollow has an aesthetic that seems based on album covers. It doesn't feel like the work of an artist in any way. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: For about an hour it's a fine, ghoulish carnival sideshow, and that has its charms, but there's a thin desperation about the climax. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: Sports many unusual flavors and textures. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Both sleepy and hollow. Read more