Let's start with the good movie first. The Orphanage is a very good movie but it's in Spanish so you'll have to read subtitles. It's by Guillermo del Toro of Pan's Labyrinth fame, which I also recommend. It's about a woman who was in an orphanage as a little girl before she was adopted. Now as an adult, she bought the orphanage with her husband with the intention of caring for several special children. But when her (adopted) son goes missing, she has to discover the secret the ghosts of her childhood friends keep in an effort to find her own child. It's dark but not scary, and the ghosts are minimal so it's not hokey. It's very well made and I suggest you add it to your list of movies to see.
Now for the bad movie. Sweeny Todd is s-l-o-w and boring and the music is terrible! I thought I remember that it got good reviews, but I recommend that you don't waste your time because it's two hours of your life that you'll never get back. The acting is good - no one could argue that Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, and Helena Bonham-Carter (all Harry Potter actors, by the way) could ever do a poor job. But the almost nonexistent plot and the bad music just make this movie drag. Skip this one.
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