Ranking: Every Tim Burton Movie From Worst To Best

2. Ed Wood (1994)

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Though Ed Wood is unsurprisingly Burton's lowest-grossing film by a long way, it's without question one of his very best, driven by a clear passion for the infamous titular filmmaker (played superbly by Johnny Depp), while ingeniously rendered in a kitschy style the Z-movie director probably would've approved of.

The best thing about the film is Burton's genuine enthusiasm for the man: this could've been a sneering biopic that spent two hours mocking Ed Wood, but instead it's legitimately affectionate and compassionate. The layers are peeled back to reveal Wood as an artist (regardless of the quality of his output) and best of all, as a human being.

Martin Landau rightly won an Oscar for his performance as Wood's pal Bela Lugosi, and even Sarah Jessica Parker is totally solid in it.

Best Moment: Lugosi recreates his iconic "Home, I have no home!" speech from Wood's 1955 movie Bride of the Monster. It just might be the scene that won Landau the Oscar.

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