Capsule Reviews of AFI Festival Movies : <i> Following are reviews for the American Film Institute Film Festival. All screenings are at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas unless otherwise indicated. : </i> : TODAY
‘Snow Queen’
Finland, 1986, 88 minutes , noon Paivi Hartzell’s version of the famous fairy tale--about a boy kidnaped by the Snow Queen, and his sister’s odyssey to save him--often lacks fiber and real humanity beneath its plummy, overripe, candy-brittle surfaces. Watching it is like being stuffed with sugarplums--though the actors, for once, overpower the effects.
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