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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 9

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  A life-affirming, empathetic work. This is as good as it gets in terms of Tim Burton, but it's also one of the greatest films of the 1990s, so it's no small feat. Watching it, all I could do is marvel at the glorious monochrome imagery, towering performances, and Burton's warmth and care for the subject and the aesthetic. Best scene: Ed Wood sharing his secret to the woman who would become his second wife in the middle of a malfunctioning Dark Ride. Surrounded by the macabre is a person looking to be accepted as they are.

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★★½ 3

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  “Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It’s about the big picture.”

  This movie gets the details and the big picture right. And the dialogue is so wonderful, from the resonant power of the scene with Orson Welles about artistic independence (“Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else’s dreams?”) to Bill Murray eagerly anticipating his upcoming sex change ("Goodbye penis!"). ED WOOD is an absurdly rose-colored view of the real Ed Wood at times; it ends with him in "triumph" at the exact second before Wood's life began an irreversible slide into alcoholism, destitution, and death. But it's also a genuinely affectionate tribute to this guy who stuck to his guns, loved the movies, and was, in a lot of ways, years ahead of his time.

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  Review by Dragonknight ★★★★½ 9

  Film #44 of Project 90

  ” We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.”

  Making a biopic about someone who is known as “The Worst Director of All Time” looks like an easy task, there is a reason that people call him the worst so if you want to make a funny and entertaining comedy you only need to show his “style” of film making and his childish passion for his own works. His life gives you enough material to make at least a couple of parodies, but Tim Burton chooses another way. He doesn't see Edward J. Wood as a talentless man who can be laughed at,…

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  Review by truman ★★★★★ 6

  tb to when tim burton cared about his work

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  Review by john ★★★

  be yourself, even if being yourself means being a total failure ❤️

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  Review by Vinny Simms ★★★★

  Bill Murray, trans icon

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  Review by Mr. DuLac ★★★★½ 8

  This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.
  -Edward D. Wood, Jr.

  This is probably my favorite Tim Burton film now. Most of his films of the last few years have been style over substance, but like I noted with Frankenweenie, he seems to be at his best when he's passionate about the subject matter. You can clearly see this is a personal film for Burton made with a lot of heart.

  You can tell from the get-go that this is not a factual based biopic of Ed Wood, but rather a tribute…

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  Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★★ 1

  80/100

  Faulting this movie for whitewashing Wood's life is goofy—no one could possibly mistake its cartoonish exaggeration for a traditional biopic. Instead, it uses the broad outline of his career as the foundation for an affectionate, heartfelt paean to cockeyed optimism, with Depp as the poignant personification of drive and passion divorced from talent. Making this funny and even borderline heroic rather than cruel was no small feat, and ultimately I don't care that Lugosi was actually married for the last year of his life, or that Wood was a skirt-chasing drunk from an early age. And has there ever been such a non-judgmental portrait of tranvestism? (Even if there has, I bet it's comparatively dreary.) Stunningly beautiful, too—maybe the…

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  Review by Joe ★★★★★ 4

  Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★½ 4

  movies are kinda magic aren’t they

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  Review by The_Shape_ 21

  "Well I see the usual cast of misfits and dope addicts are here."

  I think what makes this movie work so well is that director Tim Burton and writer's Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski have a lot of care for the characters and don't criticize or ridicule them for being unique and I appreciate their favorable and sensitive approach. Though Ed Wood is known for being one of the worst filmmakers, they still have a lot of respect for him as a person and how he was able to create his dreams. I feel like considering that Tim Burton went on to make Mars Attacks! right after this, that he actually even enjoyed old low-budget sci-fi and horror. (Plan 9…

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  Review by basketcasejoel

  Tim Burton’s last film