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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
Director Tim Burton finally hooks the one that got away: a script that challenges and deepens his visionary talent. Read full review
Has enough tasty bait to satisfy an array of moviegoers: Burton fans, Albert Finney fans, fans of tall tales well spun by experts and fans of movies that don't look like any other. Read full review
The movie is a gently overstuffed cinematic piñata, crammed with tall tales -- with giants and circuses and fairy-tale woods, plus a huge squirmy catfish, all served up with a literal matter-of-fact fancy that is very pleasing. Read full review
There's delight to be had from watching Burton conjure up one fantastical Edward-inspired scenario after another. Read full review
Big Fish of course is a great-looking film, with a fantastical visual style that could be called Felliniesque if Burton had not by now earned the right to the adjective Burtonesque. Read full review
The imaginatively illustrated but precariously precious film offers up a string of minor pleasures but never becomes more than moderately amusing or involving. Read full review
The most curious thing about this magical-realist fable...is how thin and soft it is, how unpersuasive and ultimately forgettable even its most strenuous inventions turn out to be. Read full review
A misfire. The film that wants to be lighter than air instead crashes to earth with the swiftness of a concrete parachute. Read full review
Big Fish stinks from the head. Read full review
A long-winded indulgence in tear-and-a-smile whimsy, elevated above the merely irritating and saccharine by compelling art direction. Read full review