‘Nutcrackers’ Review: Ben Stiller & Four Young Brothers Who Have Never Acted Before Make For A Holiday Family Comedy With Laughs And Heart – Toronto Film Festival
deadline.comBen Stiller just got his comedy mojo back in the most unexpected of places. Nutcrackers, the official opening-night film of the 2024 Toronto Film Festival, is not the kind of movie you expect to see at serious film festivals, which tend to go for darker or less obviously commercial fare.
So it is a bit of a surprise to see TIFF launching with a purely entertaining and heartwarming family holiday movie that will make you laugh, cry and walk out feeling good.
Nothing wrong with that. This is the kind of movie Hollywood used to deliver all the time but has clearly forgotten how to make — until now.
Among the inspirations for director David Gordon Green were The Bad News Bears, Six Pack, Uncle Buck and Overboard. You might expect John Hughes was back from the dead, along with this genre.
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