Title: Ponderous Kiddie Movie With A Serious Message.
Product review: This film contains a lovely little tribute to the great Georges Melies, and a lovely message about the magic of the cinema. Well and good, nice enough and all that. Alas, this tribute and message are contained in a kiddie movie of downright elephantine ponderousness, about some kid living in a railway station who winds the clocks -- I dare you to give a damn about him, as embodied by Asa Butterworth in what has to be the least engaging child performance in recent cinematic history.
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