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The Nutcracker

Experience the Holiday Classic as You've Never Seen it Before

2010 · 1h 48m · PG Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky

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Overview

On Christmas Eve in 1920s Vienna, a young girl named Mary and her brother are visited by their eccentric uncle Albert, who gifts a magical wooden nutcracker that comes to life and takes her to a fantasy world to fight the evil Rat King.

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Rotten

Delivering the cinematic equivalent of a lump of coal in a Christmas stocking, The Nutcracker in 3D is an apparent Scrooge-like attempt by Russian filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky to forever ruin children's associations with the classic Yuletide ballet.

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
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One of the most misguided children's films ever made.

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Rotten

This non-balletic adaptation by the Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky is something gnarled and stunted and wrong, something that should never have been allowed to see the light of day. How's that for a holiday-ad pullquote?

Dana Stevens, Slate
Rotten

[It] has so many terrible ideas that the terrible execution is almost irrelevant: Even if the film were well done, it would still be a travesty.

David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture
Rotten

The Viennese scenes, shot on Budapest soundstages, give a new, dreary meaning to "workmanlike."

Mike Hale, New York Times

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