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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

2018

Lasse Hallström, Joe Johnston

Mackenzie Foy, Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman ...

4.9

2,668

Adventure. Fantasy All Clara wants is a key - a one-of-a-kind key that will unlock a box that holds a priceless gift from her late mother. A golden thread, presented to her at godfather Drosselmeyer's annual holiday party, leads her to the coveted key-which promptly disappears into a strange and mysterious parallel world. It's there that Clara encounters a soldier named Phillip, a gang of mice and the regents who preside over three Realms: Land of ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"Is like 'Alice in Wonderland' meets 'Cirque du Soleil' (...) A delightfully old-school diversion (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	Disney's attempt to wrestle (...) the perennially popular Tchaikovsky ballet (...) is like one of those big, elaborately decorated, butter cream-frosted cakes that looks delicious but can make you quite ill."	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"What this Nutcracker offers is so overproduced, so mechanical and so indigestibly whimsical that it won’t just be two-year-olds who want to puke it up (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Aisha Harris The New York Times	"[It] is a family holiday movie that will do well enough for now; it probably won’t linger in your memory long enough to make it until the next inevitable adaptation comes around.	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"It’s hard to imagine kids remembering 'The Nutcracker and the Four Realms' by the time they get home (...) Clara might be able to save the four realms, but none of them have much of a future."	NEG
United States	Emily Yoshida Vulture	"There's nothing grounding enough here; everything - the sets, the costumes, the performances - seems to drift off in a CGI haze."	NEG
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"A movie with little beneath its stunningly designed surface (...) If only all that creativity might have served a simpler, more elegant narrative, as opposed to a meaningless war movie."	NEG
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"The visual allure of this production is undeniable, but having the nerve to be simple and nice all the way through is, even for Disney, verging on being a lost art."	NEU
United States	Katie Rife AV Club	"Another flavorless remake from the Disney magic machine (...) Although the film shares a setup with the ballet version of The Nutcracker the story diverges so significantly that comparing the two is largely pointless.	NEG
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"[It] is a miscalculation of Magic Kingdom-sized proportions (...) [It] drowns in CGI, underdeveloped characters, and a plot utterly devoid of energy and excitement (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Tom Russo Boston Globe	"What starts as a modest, agreeable riff on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s original tale eventually veers into stultifying action, rote twists, and other badly forced contemporary tweaks (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG

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