New in Theaters: ‘Big Eyes’

Christoph Waltz and Amy Adams fight over ‘Big Eyes’ (Weinstein)

Perhaps stung by the negative reception to his big-budget blowout take on the old campy gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, Tim Burton went smaller for his latestfilm, a more modest and quirky true story about an artist who never quite got her due.

Big Eyesopens on Christmas Day. My review is at PopMatters:

There was a time in the early ‘60s when Walter Keane was making more money than any other living artist in the Western world. He wa...