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10 BABE The three years that Chris Noonan put into directing real and animatronic dogs, mice and sheep and one adorable pig were well worth the effort. Babe is no lumbering effects movie; there's a fairy-tale soul in this machine.
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GLUM AND GLUMMER MOVIES Critics often groan about mindlessly optimistic tripe from Hollywood. But in 1995 many of them found moral instruction, even art, in mindlessly pessimistic tripe--grotty little films about how rotten life is. If it wasn't the self-destructive singer in Georgia, it was a moony, whiny Priest or some horny, joyless Kids. Cheer up, folks; life ain't that bad. Only movies are.