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Sleepy Hollow Review

Other Critics provided by Metacritic.com

Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    65

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 67

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    Little more than a lavish, art-directed slasher movie.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune

    Visually sumptuous and playfully creepy.

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  • 88

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    This is the best-looking horror film since Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula."

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  • 88

    out of 100

    USA Today Mike Clark

    This is a very bloody fantasy (reds do eke their way into the black-and-blues), but it's hard to think of another film with as many severed heads whose overall tone is so sweet.

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For Families provided by Common Sense Media

Iffy for 16+

There are lots of slasher movies better than this.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this is a very, very gory movie, with many headless corpses, lots of spurting blood, heads being sliced off and bouncing to the ground, various other murders, a couple of "boo!"-type scares, and of course characters perpetually in peril. The heads all show up eventually, too. There is a brief but non-explicit scene of a couple having sex, several very gross moments, and a scene of torture in an Iron Maiden.

  • Families can talk about whether gore is ever necessary in a film. Is gory the same thing as scary?

The good stuff
  • message true0

    Messages: Not an issue

What to watch for
  • violence false4

    Violence: Extremely gory and creepy and scary.

  • sex false2

    Sex: Brief and inexplicit scene of people having sex.

  • language false0

    Language: Not an issue

  • consumerism false0

    Consumerism: Not an issue

  • drugsalcoholtobacco false2

    Drinking, drugs and smoking: Some drinking.

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