Almost two centuries of holiday-friendly goodwill go up in a sun-blotting, smokestack cloud in The Nutcracker in 3-D , the most confounded in the long and miscegenetic line of adaptations of E.T.A. Hoffman’s 1816 story. Gone, too, is the considerable rehabilitative capital vested, by the 2007 film Ratatouille , in one of nature’s more wretched people: the common sewer rat. This stunning one-two clobber by Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky sent me reeling to the far reaches of my seat. I wasn’t alone: During a critical moment in the screening I attended, one girl of about 9 bolted from the front row to find her father, who had chosen to sit at a more adult remove.
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