Not really scary, but so beautiful

Rating: 8/10 (19 October 2011)

One of the great movies of Tim Burton alongside Edward Scissorhands, it has very effective visual effects and is gorgeous. Beauty and atmosphere are everything in this film that creates a Gothic but convincing world for the person who watches the movie. In many ways, it is closer to poetry than to horror.
Johnny Depp is as good as usual and the whole cast is of great quality. The only flaw of "Sleepy Hollow" is, of course, that it doesn't follow the story of the book of Washington Irving with very different characters and a completely different end... But only the most snobbish watchdogs of American culture will really be bothered by that. Everyone else will really enjoy this nearly perfect film.