A beautiful test case for whether a movie about artistic failure can still feel like artistic love at full volume.
Ed Wood is one of Burton's richest movies because it refuses the easy joke. The film understands incompetence, exploitation, and delusion, but it also understands how fellowship, obsession, and bad taste can still produce real movie feeling. That tension between clear-eyed judgment and genuine affection is exactly what gives the film its warmth.
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A biographical film about Edward D. Wood Jr., considered to be one of the worst filmmakers in cinema history.
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