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The art direction, costume design, and photography are top-notch: "It's the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations" (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ). Johnny Depp, playing Ichabod Crane as an effete Manhattan detective sent to get to the bottom of a rash of beheadings, shines (or more accurately, is appropriately pallid).
No longer the wild and visionary improviser, Soutine now apprenticed himself to the great painterly painters of the past: Courbet, Chardin, and Rembrandt.
"He was one of the last painterly painters," maintains Marden, adding that Rothko's great composition of purple, white, and red ( Untitled , 1953) is "like an impressionist work, because of the kind of touch involved."
To Robert Koehler in Daily Variety, the animation "is a curious hodgepodge of awkward human movement, tired nature effects and fine painterly backgrounds and detail work."
"'Sleepy Hollow' has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations."