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MOVIE REVIEW: 'Where the Wild Things Are'

Oct. 16, 2009
It seems a strange thing to say about a book fewer than a dozen sentences long, but here it is: "Where the Wild Things Are," the film, is not a faithful adaptation of its source material. Let me qualify that. Visually, Spike Jonze's film seems magically to bring to life writer and...
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