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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

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Original title: The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Year: 2018
Running time: 99 min.
Country: United States
Director: Lasse Hallström, Joe Johnston
Screenwriter: Ashleigh Powell, Marius Petipa. Story: E.T.A. Hoffman
Music: James Newton Howard
Cinematography: Linus Sandgren
Cast: Mackenzie Foy, Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, Eugenio Derbez, Matthew Macfadyen, Miranda Hart, Ellie Bamber, Misty Copeland, Omid Djalili, Meera Syal, Nick Mohammed, Charles Streeter, Gemma Wilks, Tom Sweet, Jack Whitehall, Richard E. Grant, Gustavo Dudamel, Sergei Polunin, Anna Madeley, Layla Harrison, David McIntosh, Louis McMiller, Nicole O'Neill, Craig GarnerSee 15 More
Producer: Walt Disney Pictures, The Mark Gordon Company
Genre: Adventure. Fantasy | Family-friendly
Movie Groups: E.T.A. Hoffmann Adaptations
Synopsis: 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 Snowflakes, Land of Flowers, and Land of Sweets. Clara and Phillip must brave the ominous Fourth Realm, home to the tyrant Mother Ginger, to retrieve Clara's key and hopefully return harmony to the unstable world.

Awards: 2018: Annie Awards: Nominated for Character Animation in a Live Action Production

Critics' reviews

"Is like 'Alice in Wonderland' meets 'Cirque du Soleil' (...) A delightfully old-school diversion (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

Michael O'Sullivan: The Washington Post
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."

David Rooney: The Hollywood Reporter
"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)"

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone
"[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.

Aisha Harris: The New York Times
"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."

David Ehrlich: IndieWire
"There's nothing grounding enough here; everything - the sets, the costumes, the performances - seems to drift off in a CGI haze."

Emily Yoshida: Vulture
"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."

Peter Debruge: Variety
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