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Sleepy Hollow (1999) Rank 5 Reviews
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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
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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
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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
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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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
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)
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
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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")
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)
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
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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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)
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
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Scott Renshaw
The story's protagonist is still named Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp), but in SLEEPY HOLLOW Crane is a turnofthe19thcentury New York City constable dedicated to logical investigation and his own early explorations into forensic science. After a clash with ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Scott Renshaw
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Paramount hasn't been known to create terribly comprehensive DVD presentations, but they take a big step in the right direction with the disc for Tim Burton's hit reimagining of the Washington Irving story. At first glance, Sleey Hollow appears to be ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Movieman's Guide to the Movies (Brian Oliver)
I liked this movie for it's pure horror entertainment. It is not, however, for everyone. Decapitations abound throughout the picture (my count had it as high as 8). It is very well written with it's 18th Century dialogue by Andrew Kevin Walker, whose ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Movieman's Guide to the Movies (Brian Oliver)
3 Black Chicks ("The Diva")
This was not "Disney's Sleepy Hollow", that's for dang sure. I really enjoyed it, but then again, I happen to dig Tim Burton. He is sometimes a bit too weird for those who don't quite understand his style. This might make it difficult for some of y'all ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at 3 Black Chicks ("The Diva")
Walter Frith
If you wanted to take the film seriously, you would have to look at the characters first and foremost and unfortunately, Depp's is the only interesting one in the whole picture. The film seems obsessed, almost addicted like an alcoholic would be, with ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Walter Frith
Dark Horizons (Garth Franklin)
It's three years since Tim Burton's last film "Mars Attacks" hit the screen and now he's back with this stylish, yet sadly empty version of the classic headless horseman legend. The cinematography, production design, artwork, etc. are all absolutely ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Dark Horizons (Garth Franklin)
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TIME Magazine (Richard Corliss)
Burton's richest, prettiest, weirdest since Batman Returns . ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at TIME Magazine (Richard Corliss)
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A spooky gothic horror tale with first-rate production design. ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Netflix (James Rocchi)
24 Frames Per Second (Edward Champion)
eFilmCritic.com (Scott Weinberg)
Tim Burton spins another eerie betime tale. ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Scott Weinberg)
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Susan Granger
Tim Burton fans are gonna relish this fantasy horror story, especially the creepy beginning. It's 1799 on a misty road near the small village of Sleepy Hollow in New York's Hudson River Valley when a coach carrying the region's richest man (Martin ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Susan Granger
The UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
No doubt Ricci was just so amazed by the movie's carefully constructed atmosphere that she could not stand in the way of it with her usual distracting sarcasm. "Sleepy Hollow" proves -- as do "Pee Wee's Big Adventure", "Batman", "Edward Scissorhands" ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at The UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
Cinematter (Matt Williams)
Live action romantic horror film loosely based the legend of Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) and the Headless Horseman. Female lead Katrina Van Tassel will be played by Christina Ricci. Casper Van Dien will play Ichabod's rival Brom Van Brunt. Andrew Kevin ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Cinematter (Matt Williams)
Steve Rhodes
The warning is about the script and the miscasting of the female lead. Kevin Yagher's underdeveloped script, based on the famous Washington Irving story, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," has some good ideas but lacks a cohesive narrative.Cast opposite ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Steve Rhodes
Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
The lavish sets and wonderful art direction add a lot to the style of this film. The cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki ("Great Expectations") is excellent, as is the production Design by Rick Heinrichs ("Edward Scissorhands") and the art direction by ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
Most of us know the fable of Icabod Crane and the Headless Horseman from the popular 1949 Disney cartoon, featuring the oh-so-mellow narration of Bing Crosby.Tim Burton's newSleepy Hollowwith Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci isnotthat ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)
Depp and Ricci seem to be in a game of one-upsmanship to see who can look more sleepy and uninspired. The town elders are reasonably convincing in their small roles, but the intricacies of the plot seem to drag the film down instead of make it ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)
That Cow (B. Kiefer)
Everyone seems to be waiting for Tim Burton to grow up. I don't think that's going to happen. Tim Burton is as grown up as he is going to be. Burton is our Edgar Allen Poe. He's fascinated with the macabre and gothic. It's an easy jump for Burton to ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at That Cow (B. Kiefer)
Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow" is a wildly imaginative reinvention of Washington Irving's classic campfire ghost story about the Headless Horseman terrorizing a small, northeastern hamlet in the late 1700s. Burton and screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
Natural Born Viewers ("Geeky Marcus")
This guy Tim Burton has talent, he is a master set designer. But somebody should
tell him that set designers do not make movies, they just do the sets. And
if you do both, you end up with "Sleepy Hollow," gorgeous eye candy
that tastes ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Natural Born Viewers ("Geeky Marcus")
SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
In the early 1990s, following the unparalleled box-office and critical
success of films like Beetlejuice
(1998), Batman
(1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990),
Batman Returns (1992), The
Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and Ed
Wood (1994), Tim Burton ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
Three Movie Buffs (Eric Nash)
The headless horseman is very ominous and scary. Jack O'lanterns are everywhere. This could easily become a traditional Halloween favorite. But I guessed who the real villain was the not even half way through the movie. ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Three Movie Buffs (Eric Nash)
Gary Jones
Johnny Depp is a fine actor, but his performance here is little more than a reworking of his Edward Scissorhands, the similarity between the roles highlighted when Ichabod wields various spiky investigative gadgets. But what worked in Scissorhands ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Gary Jones
New York Post (Jonathan Foreman)
A visual tour de force. ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at New York Post (Jonathan Foreman)
Dustin Putman
What "Sleepy Hollow" isn't is an adaptation of the Irving story. Aside from the key plot point of a headless horseman who prowls the countryside of the farming community, Sleepy Hollow, circa 1799, the film is only very loosely related to its source ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Dustin Putman
Detroit News (Susan Stark)
ToxicUniverse.com (Mike Bracken)
None of this is to say that Sleepy Hollow is a bad film, because it’s not. As I mentioned earlier, it might be ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at ToxicUniverse.com (Mike Bracken)
Kalamazoo Gazette (James Sanford)
often feels akin to the Hammer horror movies made in England during the 1950s and 1960s, the spooky/gory spectacles that broke new ground in presenting on-screen violence. ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Kalamazoo Gazette (James Sanford)
Reel.com
With his foggy fable Sleepy Hollow, director Tim Burton builds a typically dark yet delightful fantasy, only to decapitate his creation with anticlimactic exposition and a drawn-out, action-heavy finale. Part Ed Wood and part Murder, She Wrote, this ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Reel.com
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I’ll be the first to admit I don’t really remember the details of Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. But what I do remember, well, it didn’t go like this.
In typical Tim Burton fashion, a fairy tale gets an update ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
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With every new release of a movie by cult director Tim Burton, viewers can rest assured that the vision they are presented with in each particular film is a rather unique one, no matter how familiar the thematic itself may be. Burton managed to flesh out ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at DVD Review e-zine
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...a marvelous film to look at, with its strange, surrealistic sets, if not a film to engage one's intellect very strongly. ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
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SLEEPY HOLLOW is another classic Tim Burton atmosphere piece, which means the mood is infinitely more satisfying than the story. Or the characters... Or any action sequence... The visuals make this a must-see-shot after stunning shot from Emmanuel ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Movie Hell (Michael J. Legeros)
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This is a loose adaptation of the classic Washington Irving tale about supernatural events in a gloomy little town. Johnny Depp stars as Ichabod Crane, a constable operating in New York. It's the end of 1799, and Crane is preaching for more reasonable ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Montreal Film Journal (Kevin N. Laforest)
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"Sleepy Hollow" is a film that seems carefully designed to be a hit so big it will erase all these bad memories. It's a veritable retrospective of his eye-popping effects and stylistic flourishes, with a ghoulish "Frankenweenie"-like comic-horror ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Sean Townsend
The film's plot bears only a passing resemblance to Irving's short story. Ichabod Crane is now a constable and forensic scientist instead of a schoolmaster. This allows the writers to cook up an unnecessarily convoluted murder mystery involving ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Sean Townsend
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A Paramount Pictures and Mandalay Pictures Presentation of a Scott Rudin/American Zoetrope Production; Executive Produced by Francis Ford Coppola and Larry Franco; Produced by Scott Rudin and Adam Schroeder; Written by Andrew Kevin Walker; Story by ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at ShowBIZ Data
Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)
Director Tim Burton creates films with a visual texture that is palpable. The forest, the mist, the ... beheadings. They all come to life, sometimes too vividly, in "Sleepy Hollow", Mr. Burton's adaptation of the Washington Irving short story, "The ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)
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Director Tim Burton has a following of individuals who prefer to be dazzled by art design and costumery than through suspenseful cinematic technique. If all it took to be a good movie was to have great imagery, SLEEPY HOLLOW would be a masterpiece. As for ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
You'll notice Washington Irving's name is absent from the title of Burton's new film. That's due in no small part to the fact that this version of the story owes less to Irving's original tale than to screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker (Seven) and ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
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Lejos de transcribir cinematográficamente la conocida (por los norteamericanos) historia de Sleepy Hollow, el director norteamericano Tim Burton (Batman, Joven manos de tijera) le da una vuelta de tuerca y la concibe como un cuento de terror con fuerte ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Fotograma.com
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Burton and company were harkening back to the old days—the Hammer/AIP pictures from the fifties and sixties. And they hit that nail right on the fricking head. ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Needcoffee.com (Widgett Walls)
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A triumph of genre filmmaking. ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Steve Simels)
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History will recognize the rich imagination and secret tenderness of Burton's best films. ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at New York Times (Janet Maslin)
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Tim Burton's films are oft anticipated for his
boldly off-center and usually dark art direction.
"Sleepy Hollow" is no exception. The warm colors have
bled from the footage leaving the flesh stark, ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)
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Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow is as stylish and atmospheric as any motion picture to arrive in theaters this year. Unfortunately, those aspects are its lone strengths. The film suffers from tepid performances, feebly drawn characters, and a meandering narrat ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
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For some incomprehensible reason, Sleepy Hollow is being released in mid-November instead of four weeks earlier during the pre-Halloween season, when it probably would have been guaranteed a healthy week or two at the box office. Set up ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
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As heroic failures go, it's up there with the best. ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Film Written Magazine (Andrew Howe)
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Ultimately a let-down. ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Fantastica Daily (Mervius)
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Christian Pyle
Andrew Kevin Walker's screenplay takes only the character names from the classic short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." In the movie Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is a New York City police constable who is trying to introduce scientific methods of ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Christian Pyle
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In the past, Tim Burton has taken cinema by storm with the action packed Batman, and the hilarious Ed Wood, but lately his films just don't cut it. Sleepy Hollow has some unique features, but the script is a terrible mess. For those who remember ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Nick Lyons
Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
The film is not helped by a cast (I might add a rather talented cast of British and Americans) that are sleepwalking through their parts. The two stars, who have inane and unappealing and underwritten roles, and seem to be acting as if they have no idea ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
A "Hollow-wood" production that couldn't be more hollow or Hollywoodish. ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
The Movie Mom (Nell Minow)
This less the Washington Irving story than it is "Scream" set in post- revolutionary times. Its production design by Rick Heinrichs is ravishingly eerie, all gray skies, looming spires, gnarled branches, and rearing horses. The magnificent collection of ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at The Movie Mom (Nell Minow)
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
What we have here is the product of two men. After his screenplay for Seven was produced, Andrew Kevin Walker's retelling of this Washington Irving story was sold and promptly sat on the shelf for a few years. Director Tim Burton, after a long string ...read the complete Sleepy Hollow movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
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