The Nightmare Before Christmas - Movie Reviews (2024)

The Nightmare Before Christmas is unique and timeless, a magical adventure that’ll delight the senses and steal your heart.

Full Review | Nov 14, 2023

One of the best films of all-time, the gorgeous stop-motion animation and story of Jack Skellington longing for something more leaves us breathless, happy and fulfilled.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 30, 2023

In the days of computer-animated films that occasionally appear no different than your average videogame, looking back, we must appreciate that Tim Burton and Henry Selick created something so wonderfully original.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 5, 2023

In 1993, The Nightmare Before Christmas premiered to moderate success but has since gone on to become a huge money making franchise for Disney.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 29, 2023

The playfully macabre humor of Tim Burton is deftly brought to life through the old-school magic of stop-motion animation by director Henry Selick...

Full Review | Jan 7, 2023

Producer Tim Burton's imaginatively dark, musical fantasy and original yet spooky stop-motion animated tale was directed by Burton's colleague at Disney Animation Henry Selick. It was also known as "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas" and served

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | Oct 12, 2022

The movie is a perfect Halloween perennial, just short enough not to wear out its welcome and just long enough to brushstroke its Pagan vs. Christian subtext.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Sep 20, 2022

The Nightmare Before Christmas is an analysis of why Christmas is so special and magic beyond just the wrapping on the outside.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Aug 28, 2022

Films dont get more imaginative or original than this. The Nightmare Before Christmas is not just a good movieits everything we go to the movies for in the first place.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 20, 2022

This is a timeless classic that still entertains. I love this film.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 22, 2021

This in an incredible film. One of my favorite films without question.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 22, 2021

This was fun, the music is great and the animation is fascinating given all of the work that goes into it.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2021

The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of those rare holiday films that seems to transcend generations...

Full Review | Apr 14, 2021

On a visual level, the movie qualifies as poetry in stop-motion.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 24, 2021

Composer Danny Elfman is one of the greatest film composers of all time and performs the singing voice of Jack Skellington. It's an extremely catchy score...

Full Review | Nov 4, 2020

An uncommonly dark Disney release, yet it's also full of comedy and adventure.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 21, 2020

A weird and wonderful cast, including the two-faced drama king of a mayor and the disgustingly delightful Oogie Boogie, the visuals plus Danny Elfman's marvelous music and lyrics are simultaneously horrifying and heartwarming.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | May 23, 2020

The totality and tangibility of the world that Selick and his animators extract from Burton's lovely spidery drawings is one of the major achievements of animation history.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 28, 2018

I'm blown away by just the construction of the scenes, and by all of the effects that have been incorporated to make everything move fluidly; and there's also this charming imperfection to the animation that just makes it so gorgeous.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Apr 13, 2018

Burton's new excursion in the world of comic nightmare will prove a rare pre-Christmas goblin's feast.

Full Review | Apr 13, 2018