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Millions (2004, UK) *****

Millions faithfully aims right at the heart – emotionally and otherwise, but so doing without much melodrama and preaching. It is not a children film nor a Christian fable but rather a direct, even if seemingly naive, examination of the way we justify our actions, respect others and struggle, mostly with little success, to maintain what we believe are our core values.

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Gnomeo and Juliet (2011) ***

A cute idea for a 10 minute animation short, overextends its stay into a full feature. All in all, a bearable movie for adults. The kids however, gave it very high marks – they are so easy to please.

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The Fighter (2010) ****

With a fairly trivial plot of an underdog boxer making a comeback, The Fighter wisely reinvents the genre by making it a family story, combined with redemption and a late coming-of-age character study. The film starts slow and grows on you.

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Big (1988) ****

Though not unique in its theme of age-change, Big has a certain sense of authenticity that awakens the child in its adult viewers. It is not so much a film about a child wanting to grow up as it is about our wish to preserve that childhood innocence; when the world was much less complicated and all about fun.

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Tangled (2010) ****

With enough satisfying scenes to make up for the parts that are over-formulated, corny and otherwise expected, Tangled is a winner with kids, and bearable enough with their adult escorts, especially in comparison to some other kids’ flicks in recent times.

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Billy Elliot (2000, UK) *****

Billy Elliot bullies us into caring about the story, despite showing relatively little melodramatic sentiments. The characters, though somewhat stereotyped, are well-balanced, including the presence of the missing dead mother. The rougher the story becomes, the softer it gets.

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