Big Eyes, 2014 - ★★★★

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First off, I gotta say I'm a big Tim Burton fanboy and he made my favorite movie of all time, Ed Wood. So maybe this review is biased.
Second, even though this movie has some burtonisms (the intro scene, the title giving big eyes), most of it doesn't feel like a Tim Burton movie, probably because this is a movie about real life and about a true story and not a weird fantasy world.
But that doesn't make it a bad movie. Not at all.
This movie is set in the 1950s and is about the true story of the painter Margaret Keane (Amy Adams), who paints these pictures of little kids with big eyes. She runs away from her husband (we never get to know why) and soon after meets Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz), a painter himself. They marry and he ends up selling her paintings under his name because womens paintings don't sell as good. From there on, conflicts occur.
The acting is great, both Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz do a great job. Waltz especially is really good because his character changes completely and he pulls it off believable.
The shots are beautiful, in the beginning we get lots of scenery shots while Margaret is fleeing her former life in a car, and those shots are beautiful, nice to look at.
The story is interesting, but at parts it gets a little boring, it felt longer than 104 minutes. I still enjoyed it in the end, and that's what matters.
The music is great too, we have some music from the time it is set (the Beach Boys "In my room"), but also music by composer Danny Elfman and songs by Lana del Rey. All the music is very good.
All in all an enjoyable watch, it is a drama with some comedic elements, so maybe not everyones taste and something different for Tim Burton (at least I don't think he ever did something quite like this).
I liked it and I give it 4 out of 5 stars.