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Film Reviews: New Releases for Nov. 8
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Heretic, Small Things Like These, Memoir of a Snail and more
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Heretic Memoir of a Snail The Best Christmas Pageant Ever *** Barbara Robinson's 1972 novel The Best Christmas Pageant Ever remains one of sweetest, most earnest examples of faith-based family entertainment this side of A Charlie Brown Christmas , and Dallas Jenkins' adaptation retains nearly everything that makes the source material work.
Narrated in flashback by Lauren Graham, it's set in a picturesque 1970s small town where well-meaning mom Grace (Judy Greer) agrees to take over directing the town's beloved Nativity pageant, only to find that the Herdmans—a…
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