Big Eyes
A drama about the awakening of the painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who passed off her work as his own in the 1960s.
14 March 1985, Roseville, California, USA
27 September 1962, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
29 December 1950, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2 November 1972, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
20 October 1974, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
10 March 1997, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
22 January 1956, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
May 31, 2016
Burton's uninspired made-for-cable vibe and Christoph Waltz's overly manic performance always feel at odds with each other.
April 09, 2016
A lovingly crafted, uncommonly astute look at gender roles in American families.
January 02, 2015
Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz are charismatic in the lead roles; occasionally they distract from the movie's overall smugness.
March 07, 2016
Bright yet disturbing, Big Eyes is both an indicator of just how far women have come in the past 60 years and a comment on the commercialisation of pop culture.
December 29, 2014
Adams is lovely and tremulous, but Big Eyes would be even better if Waltz was in the same key.
January 12, 2015
A feminist psycho-melodrama made without insight or dramatic excitement.
June 21, 2016
The 106-minute drama is always watchable, and works no less and no more than a two-dimensional portrait that catches the eye and suggests deeper meaning than is actually present.
December 30, 2014
For all its tonal shifts and erratic pacing, the film is Burton's heartfelt tribute to the yearning that drives even the most marginalized artist to self expression no matter what the hell anyone thinks.
April 10, 2016
Big Eyes is Tim Burton's second foray into strange but true stories of American termite art culture... a story about the pain behind the façade of happiness and success.
May 23, 2016
Burton had a chance to make a powerful statement on the struggle for a woman to achieve artistic recognition and instead settled for another childlike fairy tale.
April 06, 2016
A bitter feminist fairy tale about a woman betrayed by love and trust and crafted by culture to be vulnerable to the charms of a con-artist husband.
