This cautionary fable (Be True to Your Ghoulish Self) may be a little too twisted for little kids but anyone 8 or older will spot the friendly glint behind jack's empty eye sockets. full review

I'm not sure I've ever seen a fantasy film that's at once so visually amazing and so emotionally dead. full review

A work of grand visual wit, clever songs, funny gags and genuine pathos, it is perhaps the greatest stop-motion animated film ever, a painstaking style of model animation that computers have all but completely done away with. full review

A fun house of funereal glamour. full review

The set designs are ingenious and the songs (music and lyrics by Danny Elfman) are fairly good. full review

The dazzling techniques employed here create a strikinglook that's never been seen in such sustained form, making this a unique curio that will appeal to kids and film enthusiasts alike. full review

The hippest of all holiday classics, the 1993 release rendered anew in 3-D format remains a postmodern three-ring circus of morbid humor, eye-popping puppet animation and show-stopping songs. full review

Flattened for years on cable and video, Nightmare has been resurrected in all its tactile glory. full review

(Producer Tim) Burton's skewed vision is seamlessly realized by director Henry Selick and cleverly enhanced by Danny Elfman's songs. full review

This is the movie puts the "oooh" back in "boo." full review

Thirteen years after its debut, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas has gone 3D, which makes a good thing even better. full review

If the 3-D fails to grab you as much as you might hope, it never takes you out of the movie, which is a remarkable feat. full review

The Nightmare Before Christmas is a major step forward for both stop-motion animation, which is stunningly well used, and for Mr. Burton himself. He now moves from the level of extremely talented eccentric to that of Disney-style household word. full review

Of all the new Halloween films, only this one has the power to truly haunt our dreams.

Working with gifted artists and designers, [Burton] has made a world here that is as completely new as the worlds we saw for the first time in such films as Metropolis, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari or Star Wars. full review

This brilliant combination of stop-motion animation, three-dimensional sets and superbly imaginative graphics, brings animation to new peaks. full review

This is a modern classic that enriches the Christmas tradition by turning it on its head and spinning it like a bob. full review

The Nightmare Before Christmas has something to offer just about everyone. full review