Fresh
Beetlejuice means something good: that imaginative artists can bring a fading genre back from the dead.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Beetlejuice
In this house... if you've seen one ghost... you haven't seen them all.
1988 · 1h 32m · PG
Comedy, Fantasy
Directed by
Tim Burton
Overview
A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
83%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Luckily, Keaton pops up from his grave to liven things up when the antics pitting the good ghosts against the intruders become a trite cat & mouse game.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
An appealing mess.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Rotten
[The] actors, not surprisingly, are limited by the stupidity of their material.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Fresh
Not since Ghostbusters have the spirits been so uplifting.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
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