Marjorie Baumgarten

Burton’s combination of fantastic and real imagery adds to this story’s dreamy but satiric edge. Depp, as the the fragile but irresistibly fabulous title character, is “shear” delight.

The brief life and sordid death of Playboy Playmate and budding screen actress Dorothy Stratten at the hand of her unbalanced husband is the subject of this infamous incident and much-storied film.

This is one of the great teen romance movies: It’s Romeo and Juliet played out between an L.A. punk rocker and a Valley girl. Cage has never appeared more soulful.