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Sleepy Hollow (1999) Rank 4 Reviews
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Matinee Magazine (Joshua Vasquez)
Matinee Magazine (Joshua Vasquez)
eFilmCritic
The story is a slight one which you are probably vaguely familiar with. In December 1799 Ichabod Crane (Depp), a skeptical, highly strung detective, is sent to investigate three murders by decapitation in the small New York farming community of Sleepy ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at eFilmCritic
Joy Wyse
Everyone is familiar with Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, or so you think. You know that it's the story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman, isn't it? But how much more of the story do you remember? Doubtlessly, you've never ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Joy Wyse
GamePro.com ("Star Dingo")
Jan-Willem Swane
AboutFilm.com (Dana Knowles)
It's rare that the look and mood (or the star) of a film will captivate me so thoroughly that I'm willing to suspend my desire for deeper meaning, but Sleepy Hollow pulled it off. I wanted to feel cheated by its wafer-thin premise and lack of ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at AboutFilm.com (Dana Knowles)
Buzz (Tanya Marsh)
Buzz (Tanya Marsh)
Lars Lindahl
Depp, in his third Tim Burton film ("Ed Wood" and "Edward Scissorhands" were the first two), always plays a guy who is over the edge but seems normal to the audience when compared to the other characters in the film. "Sleepy Hollow" is no exception to ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Lars Lindahl
MovieMaze (Marco Dzebro)
Oregon Herald (Jamie Peck)
Brandon Herring
Only Tim Burton could to it: Make a bigbudgeted horror flick based on the classic tale by Washington Irving....and make it great. 'Sleepy Hollow' works on so many levels that in the middle of the movie, I had a huge smile on my face and thought 'Man ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Brandon Herring
DVD Talk (Joshua Zyber)
Movie Reviews UK
Three or four beheadings into Sleepy Hollow, a harum-scarum take on Washington Irving's venerable tale of love, greed and mysticism in the Hudson Valley, one gets the feeling that perhaps director Tim Burton is working in the wrong film. Piffle to the ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Movie Reviews UK
Filmtracks (Christian Clemmensen)
Overall, even though Sleepy Hollow is not the monumental return to raw
Batman form for Elfman, it offers a violent contrast to the recent
minimalist scores by the composer over the past few years. With a touch of
Bernard Herrmann at ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Filmtracks (Christian Clemmensen)
Movies for Guys
The only real knock I have against this movie is that they released it 3 weeks AFTER Halloween. What a great halloween movie this would've been. But after some really mediocre horror movies ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Movies for Guys
Brandon Herring
Only Tim Burton could to it: Make a bigbudgeted horror flick based on the classic tale by Washington Irving....and make it great. 'Sleepy Hollow' works on so many levels that in the middle of the movie, I had a huge smile on my face and thought 'Man ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Brandon Herring
pulpmovies.com (Paul Pritchard)
UpcomingDiscs.com (Gino Sassani)
Sleepy Hollow is certainly not your father’s version of the Washington Irving tale. Sleepy Hollow is enshrouded in patented Tim Burton darkness and rich gothic atmosphere. Johnny Depp continues to amaze... although his performances never appear ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at UpcomingDiscs.com (Gino Sassani)
JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
Beautiful. A film which draws you into its grungy world with its impeccable style and attention to dreary detail, woos you in further with a charmingly pure performance from an actor who is firmly solidifying his place amongst his peer group of esteemed ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)
Johnny Depp plays Ichabod Crane, who in this version of the classic tale is a New York policeman sent to the picturesque village of Sleepy Hollow, two days' journey up the Hudson River, where a number of locals have been reported beheaded. Lore has it ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)
filmfacts (Andreas Edler)
Movielocity Movie Reviews (Blake Kunisch)
Tim Burton has outdone himself. Sleepy Hollow is a visually stunning gothic look at Washington Irving's classic tale The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. In a highly fictitious retelling of the legend, Johnny Depp stars as Ichabod Crane as he travels to the ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Movielocity Movie Reviews (Blake Kunisch)
Media-Assault.com (Sean Caszatt)
Tim Burton has directed some of my favorite films, including Ed Wood and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Even if a project he's worked on doesn't quite work, like Mars Attacks! or Batman, the resulting film still is interesting to look at from a ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Media-Assault.com (Sean Caszatt)
John Beachem
Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is a New York detective in the year 1799. Unlike his fellow officers, Crane feels that scientific analysis is the way that detectives will solve crimes in the next century. Crane's superior (Christopher Lee in a sadly brief ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at John Beachem
GamePro.com (Denise MacLaughlin)
DVD Talk (Chuck Arrington)
Sleepy Hollow is one of the greatest American horror stories ever written. Till now, it had not received the kind of treatment needed to make it a classic piece of cinema as well. Tim Burton's vision is richly terrifying & deliciously evil. In homage to ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at DVD Talk (Chuck Arrington)
FilmHead.com (Matt Heffernan)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow" begins with a story that would not have distinguished one of the lesser films from the Hammer horror franchise and elevates it by sheer style and acting into ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
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