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100
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Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
By the time this irresistible treat is over, it has created some of the funniest moments and most inspired visual humor and design we may expect to experience at the movies all year. [30 Mar 1988]
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100
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Washington Post Desson Thomson
Hilarious...The joy of Beetlejuice is its completely bizarre -- but perfectly realized -- view of the world, a la Gary Larson's "The Far Side," or "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." [1 Apr 1988]
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90
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Washington Post Rita Kempley
Not since "Ghostbusters" have the spirits been so uplifting. [30 Mar 1988]
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88
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USA Today Mike Clark
So original that it'll be years before a major filmmaker attempts another one. We're talking black-belt cult-movie status here. [30 Mar 1988]
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75
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Chicago Tribune Dave Kehr
For all the film's popped eyeballs and severed limbs, Beetlejuice retains an innocence that makes the grotesque humor very appealing. Burton has captured the sweet ghoulishness of a 12-year-old pouring over horror comics, dreaming of the greatest Halloween costume ever invented. [30 Mar 1988]
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70
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TV Guide
A surreal, demented delight.
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50
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Gets off to a start that's so charming it never lives it down. The movie is all anticlimax once we realize it's going to be about gimmicks, not characters.
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50
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Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The screenplay is foolish and Michael Keaton overplays the title role badly, but director Tim Burton gives the comedy a heap of visual imagination. [22 Apr 1988]
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40
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The New York Times Elvis Mitchell
Elaborate as this sounds, there really isn't much plot here, only a parade of arbitrary visual tricks to hold the film together. [30 Mar 1988, p.C18]
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25
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
It's two hours of your life wasted, time once spent that can never be regained. Don't go. Don't do it. [30 Mar 1988]
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