Summary
With little competition at the box office before Christmas, Chris Weitz's visually stunning adaptation of Northern Lights by Philip Pullman - the first part of the His Dark Materials saga - should prove irresistible to family audiences.
Writer-director Weitz has performed an impressive vanishing act with great swathes of Pullman's text without sacrificing the heart and soul of the book.See the full content of this document
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Golden Cast Brings Family Adventure to Life
That said, he has excised too much narrative from the opening half hour, introducing principal characters at a breathless pace, presumably because...
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