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Critic wrangle: "A Christmas Tale."
Published 11/14/2008 by Alison Willmore at IFC: Indie Eye
... at New York. "Maybe. I have to play with it longer. It's certainly Desplechin's most accessible film, in part because its dysfunctional-family-holiday-reunion genre is so comfy and its palette so warm." "[O]ut of the most ordinary ingredients -- an ailing mother, estranged adult siblings, a good meal ruined by bad behavior -- the endlessly inventive French filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin has made the old look fresh," writes Lisa Schwarzbaum at Entertainment Weekly. ...

Desplechin: French Auteur of A Christmas Tale
Published 11/15/2008 by Variety.com * at Thompson On Hollywood
... my style," he says. "I'm looking at what's happening on set and finding the appropriate style to have it. Even if my characters are very talkative it's a way of reminding that film in a silent art. The perfect movie is the one where you don't recgonize me at all as a film by Arnaud Desplechin." Indiewire interviews Desplechin and NYT's Dennis Lim profiles him. Reviews are strong (87 on Metacritic): here are the NYT's A.O. Scott and EW's Lisa Schwarzbaum. ...

Mariah vs. Christina: Battle of the Christmas divas!
Published 13 days ago by Tanner Stransky at Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
... You." But this year I'm going to challenge that given by suggesting that maybe Christina Aguilera's "Christmas Time"—from her 2000 album My Kind of Christmas —could be better than Mariah's perennial fave. It's both dramatic and a holiday trifle. Watch live-in-concert versions of both here and then sound off about your favorite in the comments below. Time to throw down, PopWatchers: Who wins the battle of the Christmas divas? More holiday fun from EW: 20 Worst Holiday Movies Movie review: A Christmas Tale '30 Rock' recap: A ghost of Christmas past