Warning: stacking any of these life-is-pain eurodramas with a Hiyao Miyazaki DVD in one CD sleeve could cause a massive explosion that destroys the Earth. I don’t mean to say that these are not well made, moving, thought-provoking critic-pleasers. Mostly they are, except for Seaside which could suck a golf ball through ten miles of garden hose. Still, after watching enough flawed people cause pain and then die or just drift along without learning or changing in any meaningful way, I could really go for some life lessons from a bug-eyed talking raccoon.
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More candy for people who like bad reviews: Anthony Lane in the New Yorker on Nancy Drew.