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The Spiderwick Chronicles
Moving with his family into an old, dark house, troubled preteen Jared (Freddie Highmore) finds a land of fairies and monsters. Conflating the five books of Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black's Narnia-lite saga into one brisk epic, Spiderwick pirouettes smartly between wondrous and scary, mixing kid-movie sentiment into its horror-film chills.
Grade: B
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