Rotten
For about an hour it's a fine, ghoulish carnival sideshow, and that has its charms, but there's a thin desperation about the climax.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Sleepy Hollow
Heads will roll.
1999 · 1h 45m · R
Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Tim Burton
Overview
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.
Director and cast
- Tim Burton Director
- Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane
- Christina Ricci as Katrina Van Tassel
- Miranda Richardson as Lady Mary Van Tassel / Crone Witch
- Michael Gough as Notar Hardenbrook
- Michael Gambon as Baltus Van Tassel
- Casper Van Dien as Brom Van Brunt
- Jeffrey Jones as Reverend Steenwyck
- Richard Griffiths as Bürgermeister Phillipse
- Ian McDiarmid as Dr. Lancaster
- Christopher Walken Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
71%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Burton, for all his skill, never ranges beyond the thrills of the obvious; he doesn't enlarge the meaning of the horror he shows us, the way a Brian De Palma might.
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture
Rotten
Sleepy Hollow has an aesthetic that seems based on album covers. It doesn't feel like the work of an artist in any way.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
Even when the narrative stalls from too many detours and decapitations, Sleepy Hollow is gorgeous filmmaking that brims over with fun-house thrills and ravishing romance.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Rotten
I find it utterly dispiriting that the talented Burton could think of nothing better to do with this astonishingly rich material than to transform it into soulless junk.
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
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