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| MADELINE (1998) - PG
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by Lew Irwin
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By contrast, most of the same critics are heaping much praise on Madeline, another film aimed at children being released today (Friday). USA Today's Mike Clark describes it as "a feel-good diversion whose mild, unthreatening tone is a major part of its charm." Jamie Bernard in the New York Daily News writes, "Now there's a movie that, while it can't take the place of Ludwig Bemelmans' children's classic, is still a treat for that same audience of little girls." Similarly Jill Vejnoska in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution observes, "In a cine-summer crammed full of rampaging reptiles and out-of-control asteroids, Madeline stands out mostly for the way it makes sleeping 12 to a room and marching and dressing in lock step seem like so much fun." Thelma Adams in the New York Post particularly praises 9-year-old British actress Hatty Jones, whose Madeline, she writes, "has a charisma unrivaled since Shirley Temple was The Little Princess." But it's all a bit too much for Janet Maslin, who writes in the New York Times, "the film's preciousness often threatens to eclipse its ingenuity." |
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