Tim Burton's best movie

Rating: Null/10 (28 March 1999)

At the time of its release, Tim Burton's ED WOOD seemed a slight but sweet-spirited charmer; a few years later, it seems like an almost-great movie, a sincere song of love to a giftless Pollyanna's love for filmmaking. Burton cast perfectly down to the tiniest bits, and Peter Suschitzky's steely black-and-white photograph puts the movie's images in the league of RAGING BULL and THE ELEPHANT MAN. Burton seems somehow more deeply connected to this material than anything in his other pictures--in his kitschy way, he has as sure a touch with this story and its milieu as Coppola had with the Corleones.