Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)Movies

  ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET Kyle Smith review of “Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” 117 minutes/R (extreme graphic violence) Tell me, is it good? Sir, it’s too good, at least. Director Tim Burton’s fierce and fast adaptation of the greatest stage musical of the last 30 years, Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” is mighty entertainment that makes you feel sorry for the saps next door in the multiplex, the ones being served up weak sauce like “Grace Is Gone.” A thundering execution of Sondheim’s incomparable demons-and-diamonds score backs a streamlined story, a wicked adult fairy tale that works with the same perfectly calibrated menace as the evil machine assembled by the title...