Fresh
This is grand-scale studio-work at its most beguiling.
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Never Forget. Never Forgive.
2007 · 1h 56m · R
Drama, Horror
Directed by
Tim Burton
Overview
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.
Director and cast
- Tim Burton Director
- Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd
- Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett
- Alan Rickman as Judge Turpin
- Timothy Spall as Beadle
- Sacha Baron Cohen as Pirelli
- Jamie Campbell Bower as Anthony Hope
- Jayne Wisener as Johanna Barker
- Ed Sanders as Toby Ragg
- Laura Michelle Kelly as Lucy Barker
- Buck Holland as Barber Customer
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
86%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A considerable achievement even if, on balance, it's more of a Tim Burton phantasmagoria than a Sondheim fantasia.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Fresh
As unsettling as it is riveting. Even Sondheim aficionados will see the story with fresh eyes, unless those eyes are covered.
Gail Pennington, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Fresh
The movie may substitute Grand Guignol for laughs at times, but it's spectacularly stylized -- each throat-slashing exceptional -- persuasively sung, and imaginatively adapted for the screen.
Bob Mondello, NPR.org
Fresh
It's as if Burton was born to direct it.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
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