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Tim Burton’s Highest-Rated Rotten Tomatoes Movie Is One He Didn’t Direct
By JOE ROBERTS
Tim Burton's highest-rated film on Rotten Tomatoes is "The Nightmare Before Christmas," for which he provided the story and character designs but didn’t actually direct.
The film was actually directed by stop-motion expert Henry Selick, but upon its initial release, Disney marketed the movie as "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas."
Since Burton was integral to the movie's creation, "Nightmare" is included in RT's ranking of his films and has managed to become his best-reviewed film, with a 95% critic score.
Burton’s signature aesthetic was the driving force behind the movie's visuals, with the filmmaker designing all the characters himself long before production began.
What's more, as the director previously told Empire, is that Jack Skellington, this character "that's perceived as dark, but is really light," is very "personal" to him.
Burton also went on to say that characters such as Jack Skellington represented his own feeling of being "perceived as this dark character, when [he] didn't feel that way."