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Trumpeted as "The Nutcracker With Macaulay Culkin," the new movie prompts dread in fans of the Christmas classic: what have they done to it this time? Rest assured, the ballet has survived intact, Tschaikovsky's score and Balanchine's choreography happily unadulterated...
Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen, 7, the twin tykes of TV's Full House, will make a movie for Warner. In future negotiations, the kids will be represented by Macaulay Culkin's father Kit. Just kidding, Hollywood...
Discerning aesthetes might make the pilgrimage to The Good Son for the sake of respected British author Ian McEwan's screenplay, prepared stoically to endure the vicissitudes of Macaulay Culkin, commercialized American cinema and Hollywood's uncomprimising compromisal of artistic integrity. They will be disappointed. Contrary to expectations, it's the director and actors who make the most of a lukewarm script...
...question: how to persuade the rest of the world that the adorable wee lad is actually evil incarnate? Mark (Elijah Wood) goes to stay with his aunt and uncle on the death of his mother. A few days of rougher-and-tumblier-than-expected play with his cousin Henry (Macaulay Culkin) convince him that he is skating on thin ice, at times literally. But to grownups, Henry appears so harmless, and Mark himself has been acting so unstable since his mother's death, that no one will listen to him. Will Mark wrench the scales from the world's eyes...
Furthermore, the over-ambitious dialogue places undigestible speeches in the mouths of our tiny tot protagonists. I'll buy a stunning transition from cute kid to devilspawn, but Macaulay Culkin saying "Don't fuck with me" is just a bit too much to swallow...