Krabat
Dir Marco Kreuzpaintner w/ David Kross, Daniel Bruhl. 120 min. Sprockets Family Zone.
BY Adam Nayman
September 01, 2008 14:09
Krabat is being programmed in the Sprockets Family Zone, but do kids really want to see a bunch of grubby lads toiling in a dank mill under the one watchful working eye of their dark-sorcerer master? Sure, the boys occasionally turn into crows — score one for dark sorcery! — but Marco Kreuzpaintner’s film is mostly laboured young-adult fantasy (the kind where only the village hottie can save our eponymous hero from homosocial stasis): overwrought, under-lit and entirely tiring.
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