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"&lt;p&gt;Even when the narrative stalls from too many detours and decapitations, Sleepy Hollow is gorgeous filmmaking that brims over with fun-house thrills and ravishing romance. The classic Washington Irving tale of a headless horseman who rides at midnight to terrorize a New York village of Dutch settlers &amp;#x2014; it&amp;apos;s1799 &amp;#x2014; proves a natural for Tim Burton. The director of &lt;em&gt;Batman&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Edward Scissorhands&lt;/em&gt; gives his film the fine burnish of a Bruegel canvas, topped only by eye-popping visual effects &amp;#x2014; how did they get that headless rider to emerge from a tree trunk at full gallop?&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;Irving, who died in 1859, won&amp;apos;t just spin in his grave at Burton&amp;apos;s delicious twists, he&amp;apos;ll fire into orbit. From the moment Johnny Depp&amp;apos;s Byronic Ichabod Crane gazes into the swelling cleavage of Christina Ricci&amp;apos;s hot-to-trot Katrina Van Tassel &amp;#x2014; &amp;quot;Do you think me wicked?&amp;quot; she asks &amp;#x2014; the spindly schoolmaster and shy damsel of Irving&amp;apos;s tale are history. Ichabod is now a big-city constable drawn to the sharp-tongued village heiress who helps him solve grisly crimes. To Irving, the horseman was merely a myth used by Brom (Casper Van Dien), a rival for Katrina, to scare off Ichabod.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;To Burton, the crimes are dead serious: Heads roll, bodies pile up, and the horseman &amp;#x2014; played in flashback by a megaweird Christopher Walken &amp;#x2014; rises from the dead. Andrew Kevin Walker, who wrote &lt;em&gt;Seven, &lt;/em&gt;turns Irving&amp;apos;s &lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sleepy Hollow&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;into one fucked-up farm town, filled with adultery, theft, murder and witchcraft. It&amp;apos;s a Burton kind of place.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;Like Batman,\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;Sleepy Hollow&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;/em&gt;has been done as a cartoon and two live-action TV shows, but never like this. Leave it to Burton, inspired by the look of British scare flicks with Christopher Lee (who does a cameo) and his own feelings about isolation and loss, to make a lively art out of being alone in the dark.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;&amp;#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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