Ranking: Every Tim Burton Movie From Worst To Best

Tim Burton's 18th feature film, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, is in cinemas now, so what better time to venture back through the legendary filmmaker's back catalogue and separate the wheat from the chaff?

Burton has had one of the most storied and fascinating careers of any A-list director over the last three decades, venturing from the unassuming family comedy through to the billion-dollar tentpole...and every weird fancy in-between.

Though Burton may have become especially inconsistent over the last decade-or-so, at least even if his films don't come together narratively, they usually (with two major exceptions) manage to serve up gorgeous style in spades.

And as for what's coming next? He's still working on getting Beetlejuice 2 made, and has been signed to helm Disney's live-action Dumbo movie, both of which could really go either way.

From his recent low-point to his single unassailable masterwork, here is every Tim Burton movie ranked from worst to best...

Burton's attempt to reboot the 1970s gothic TV show into a big-screen franchise is the director at his most agonisingly lazy and soulless, evidently attempting to coast on Johnny Depp's kookiness but abjectly failing.

Most of the attempts at quirky humour fall woefully flat, terrific actors like Helena Bonham Carter, Chloe Grace Moretz and Michelle Pfeiffer are stranded with little to do, and from a stylistic perspective there's not even much to write home about, which in Burton's realm, really tells you just how bad it is.

Though the film has begun to enjoy a critical re-evaluation in recent years with many defending it as a satire of 1960s soap operas, a dull, unfunny film is still exactly that regardless of the label one might want to ascribe to it.

Best Moment: It's tempting to flippantly say the end credits, but the sexy fight between Depp and Eva Green (possibly the only actor who isn't totally wasted here) is actually a lot of fun.