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.
18 September 1961, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
10 March 1997, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
10 November 1984, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
27 September 1962, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
30 December 1960, Calcutta, India
4 October 1956, Vienna, Austria
25 February 1958, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1949, Columbus, Ohio, USA
22 July 1938, Stepney, London, England, UK
2 November 1972, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
6 March 1955, Los Angeles, California, USA
9 November 1974, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
April 09, 2016
A lovingly crafted, uncommonly astute look at gender roles in American families.
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.
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.
May 31, 2016
Burton's uninspired made-for-cable vibe and Christoph Waltz's overly manic performance always feel at odds with each other.
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.
January 02, 2015
Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz are charismatic in the lead roles; occasionally they distract from the movie's overall smugness.
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.
December 29, 2014
Adams is lovely and tremulous, but Big Eyes would be even better if Waltz was in the same key.
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 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.
