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Article: Culture: Gothic antidote to Potter; Mike Davies reviews the week's new cinema releases.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- December 17, 2004
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Byline: Mike Davies
LEMONY SNICKET'S SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS CERT PG 103 MINS
A rather more cultish affair than the Harry Potter books, Daniel Handler's ongoing Dahl/Grimm-like saga of the Baudelaire orphans revels in its gothic darkness and lack of happy endings with tales of murder, attempted murder, suicide, and child abuse. An ideal Christmas movie then. Well, so it might have been.
Faithfully condensing the first three of the 11 books to date, director Brad Silberling (whose last film was the wonderful Moonlight Mile) has created a ...