Corpse Bride

It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.

• “A wondrous flight of fancy, a stop-motion-animated treat brimming with imaginative characters, evocative sets, sly humor, inspired songs and a genuine whimsy that seldom finds its way into today's movies.”

  Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter · 100

• “But the real marvel is that beneath the ghoulish in-jokes and horror-geek allusions, there's a core of the same bittersweet truth that makes the best fairy tales resonate from one generation to the next.”

  Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide Magazine · 100

• “A lush, modern valentine to old-fashioned sentiment, and to old-fashioned moviemaking, too.”

  Stephanie Zacharek, Salon · 100

• “One more good thing is that the movie doesn't overstay its welcome. At 76-minutes, it's wisely calculated to give us as much of its ghoulish whimsy as we can take in one sitting, and not a second more.”

  William Arnold, Seattle Post-Intelligencer · 91

• “An endearingly schizoid Frankenstein of a movie, by turns relentlessly high-spirited and darkly poignant.”

  Justin Chang, Variety · 90