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    Sweeney Todd

    Tim Burton's brilliant blood-soaked screen version of Sweeney Todd stars Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. The movie begins with sticky globules of blood on the wheels and cogs of what can only be [gulp] a meat grinder...  By now we know the nature of the meat and the gist of the ghastly story...

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    By Joe Morgenstern • Dec 22, 2007 • 4m Listen

    Tim Burton's brilliant blood-soaked screen version of Sweeney Todd stars Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. The movie begins with sticky globules of blood on the wheels and cogs of what can only be [gulp] a meat grinder... By now we know the nature of the meat and the gist of the ghastly story...

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