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| | "Finding Neverland" - Salon |
 | | No one has the answers to those questions, and the director and writers of "Finding Neverland" don't pretend to, even though the picture is, as we're tepidly alerted at the beginning, "based on true events." What Forster is interested in here is less a biopic than a mapped lunar landscape of one writer's imagination. |
 | | Forster has some good ideas here: A few of the fantasy sequences in "Finding Neverland" are lovely, and he stages a few brief scenes from "Peter Pan" in a way that gives us a sense of the impact the play must have had on straitlaced, bejeweled Edwardian audiences. |
 | | But if "Finding Neverland" shows a bit more grace and surefootedness than Forster's last picture, "Monster's Ball," it just doesn't have the buoyancy, or the resonance, that this kind of semifactual flight of fancy needs. |
| dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/2004/11/12/neverland/index.html (492 words) |
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