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'The Spiderwick Chronicles'
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As movie fantasies go, "The Spiderwick Chronicles" has a modest, almost ramshackle aggressiveness that, against all odds, manages to enchant, if not exactly transport. The movie nicely appropriates the unassuming, yet companionable tone of the series of books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black from which it's adapted. Even the "ick" factor - always an imperative with movies co-produced by Nickelodeon...
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