"...The year's most comic, romantic and haunting film fantasy....Burton is a true movie visionary with uncommon insights into hearts in torment..."
Rolling Stone

"...Eye-catching, ingenious..."
Sight and Sound

"...The whole film has a tender underlining and a marvelous fun-house look and pace....Gentleness is a nice quality to have back in movies. Along with some fairy-tale pain, longing and hilarity, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS has it..."
Los Angeles Times

"...A fairytale with an edge....Just as affecting a decade on..."
Total Film

"Depp's oddball hero transforms cute, quirky sentimentality into emotional palatability..."
Total Film

"[T]he best part of Tim Burton's sweet-tempered fantasy is that the hero is played by the ever-surprising Johnny Depp..."
Wall Street Journal