Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
positive
14(74%)
mixed
4(21%)
negative
1(5%)
Showing 19 Critic Reviews
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A classic... Edward Scissorhands is a sharp salute to the oddball in all of us.
100
Simple, funny, gorgeous, sad, and sweet, perfect for playing over and over.
100
Perhaps the most original movie fantasy creation of the year: an icon of tenderness and artistic alienation that clings, stickum-like, to your mind's eye and the softest, most woundable parts of your mass-culture heart. [7 Dec 1990, Calendar, p.F-1]
100
A witty comedy of manners that arcs into poignance, this is a Christmas movie only a Grinch could hate... One of the brightest, bittersweetest fables of this or any-year. [10 Dec 1990, p.87]
90
A delightful and delicate comic fable.
89
Depp, as the the fragile but irresistibily fabulous title character, is a delight.
88
Strange, funny and powerfully moving… Burton has found a way to move through camp to emotional authenticity, to communicate-through a concentration of style and an innocence of regard-a depth and sincerity of feeling that his deliberately (and often, comically) flat characters could not summon on their own. [14 Dec 1990, Friday, p.C]
80
Amusing and inventive.
80
An ambitious and quite beautifully conceived fairy tale for the 90s.
80
Like a great chef concocting an exquisite peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich, Mr. Burton invests awe-inspiring ingenuity into the process of reinventing something very small.
