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Pretentiously Played: Peter Jackson's Sickly Sweet Schlock

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By James DiGiovanna
Tucson Weekly | January 13, 2010
'The Lovely Bones' is a steaming, treacly pile of excrescence, frosted with visuals that look like they were adapted from the pink, lace-covered dream journal of a unicorn-collecting scrapbooker. Essentially, if Walt Disney made a movie about the rape and murder of a teenager, this is the movie he'd make.
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