Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

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, 95% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas is a stunningly original and visually delightful work of stop-motion animation.
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    Chris StuckmannChrisStuckmann.com
    I'm blown away by just the construction of the scenes, and by all of the effects that have been incorporated to make everything move fluidly; and there's also this charming imperfection to the animation that just makes it so gorgeous.
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    Kenneth TuranLos Angeles Times
    Part avant-garde art film, part amusing but morbid fairy tale, it is a delightfully ghoulish holiday musical that displays more inventiveness in its brief 75 minutes than some studios can manage in an entire year.
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    Anthony LaneThe New Yorker
    This full-length animated movie was shot in stop motion, with all the febrile, twittery fascination that the medium exerts; it has a magic-toy shop feeling, with unexpected objects stuttering into life.
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    Jay BoyarOrlando Sentinel
    Burton and his collaborators present a movie musical that's like nothing you've ever seen.
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    John HartlSeattle Times
    Visually a macabre knockout, this 75-minute fantasy boasts some of the wittiest, most vigorous stop-motion animation effects in the history of the process.
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    Desmond RyanPhiladelphia Inquirer
    Burton, the man who gave us Batman, Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands, is incapable of a conventional idea. His take on the holiday fairy tale is delightfully off the wall.
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    Kristy StrouseWonderfully Weird and Horrifying
    The Nightmare Before Christmas is unique and timeless, a magical adventure that’ll delight the senses and steal your heart.
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    Lauren VenezianiDC Film Girl
    One of the best films of all-time, the gorgeous stop-motion animation and story of Jack Skellington longing for something more leaves us breathless, happy and fulfilled.
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    Brian EggertDeep Focus Review
    In the days of computer-animated films that occasionally appear no different than your average videogame, looking back, we must appreciate that Tim Burton and Henry Selick created something so wonderfully original.
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    Allison RoseFlickDirect
    In 1993, The Nightmare Before Christmas premiered to moderate success but has since gone on to become a huge money making franchise for Disney.
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