Disney reinvents a holiday classic, minus the romance and much of the dance, resulting in a movie with little beneath its stunning surface.
Conceived just a smidge over two centuries ago, E. T. A. Hoffmann’s 1816 short story “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” has been told and retold so many times over the years — as a ballet by Tchaikovsky, as a novel by Dumas, as a Christmas cartoon by Barbie — that we can reasonably conclude there’s no […]
