On "Sweeney Todd"

My review of Sweeney Todd was published in The Dispatch today, you can read it here:
It's a gleefully ghoulish premise, and Burton embraces it in all of its gothic, Grand Guignol glory. Under his direction, "Sweeney Todd" is a thing of bloody beauty, sumptuously designed by production designer Dante Ferretti and costume designer Colleen Atwood, in which blood sprays in ruby-colored geysers covering everything from the actors to the camera lenses, the sublime Sondheim score soars simultaneously on the surprisingly strong voices of Depp and Carter...
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