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93
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56
Critics' score based on 21 reviews.
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I LOVE HARRY POTTER AND WILL ALWAYS SEE DANIAL WITH A WIZARD ROB AND ROUND GLASS ON NO MATTER WHAT MOVIE HE IS IN PLUS HE WILL NEVER NOT BE KNOWN AS... HARRY POTTER HE WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED AS "HARRY POTTER" Full Review

May 22,2008
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That person stole my name

May 22,2008
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A refreshingly gentle treatment of familiar themes such as the inevitability of change, the dashing of youthful illusions and mutability of family. Enhanced by an exotic locale, the movie overcomes a well-trodden narrative path and unflinchingly brandishes its sentimentality as it stakes out its crowd-pleasing territory.Full Review

Kevin Crust
Los Angeles Times

The film's dramatic moments are small but exquisitely rendered so that you feel the emotions experienced so many years ago. The film lingers afterward in your mind like a favorite vacation that triggered moments of sheer intensity.Full Review

Kirk Honeycutt
The Hollywood Reporter

For much of its duration, December is poignantly bittersweet, but the closing sugar rush washes its pleasing ambiguities away.Full Review

Nathan Rabin
The Onion (A.V. Club)

The filmmakers can't decide whether to trust the period innocence of the book (and play down their casting coup) or let the young man rip as a preteen-babe magnet... So December Boys splits the difference -- safely, dully.Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

A problematic memory play, shot through with honey-colored nostalgia, that backs nervously into darker matters.Full Review

Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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