Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: with Open Captions

The satirical edge has been dulled in a film that is dominated, and ultimately swamped, by its star's mannered, pixilated performance. Full Review

Depp deserves kudos for fashioning an original and outlandish if occasionally menacing character. Full Review

I call it wondrous because, in spite of lapses and imperfections, a few of them serious, Mr. Burton's movie succeeds in doing what far too few films aimed primarily at children even know how to attempt anymore, which is to feed - even to glut - the youthful appetite for aesthetic surprise. Full Review

This is a dazzling movie, yet some people (not kids, but maybe their parents) will be put off by its Grand Guignol ghoulishness. Full Review

It's doubtful that Depp's off-kilter interpretation will have any discernible effect on the movie's success. But it remains the movie's most disappointing aspect. Full Review