The Nutcracker and the Four Realms's reviews
Media reviews
The Guardian
I have to admit to being helplessly enchanted ? or suckered ? for the most part. There?s wit here and The Nutcracker will take you from zero to Christmas jumper in the opening sequence. What?s missing is the melancholy darkness of ETA Hoffmann?s story. Instead, schmaltz-merchant director Lasse Hallström tugs at the heartstrings and ladles on the syrup.
The A.V. Club
Every aspect of of the movie feels as if it?s been determined by algorithm, workshopped and test-marketed into a state of pleasant, fleeting dullness.
Entertainment Weekly
The rare quiet moments in 'Nutcracker' suggest Foy might be a real movie star. Let?s give her a real movie and find out.
Indiewire
For a movie with so much stuff to look at, the only things you really see during The Nutcracker and the Four Realms are all of the recent movies that it?s flagrantly trying to recycle.
The Wrap
The results are singularly dispiriting.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote