 However , Nigel Andrews of the Financial Times found it " like a pastoral parable that has been left outside in the <unk> too long , causing its batteries to go flat " and following a 2008 screening , Sam <unk> of The Guardian suggested " even though this film is ( unusually ) faithful to the book ... it is really little better than inoffensive . Somehow the magic that makes <unk> Carr 's book so precious is missing . " 
