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Dueling Critics

starstar Janet Maslin - NY Times
starstar Walter Addiego - SF Examiner
starstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
starstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstar Jeff Millar - Houston Chronicle
starstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstar Jack Mathews - LA Times
starstar Shawn Levy - Portland Oregonian
starstar Robert Horton - Film.com
starstar Owen Gleiberman - EW
starstar John Hartl - Seattle Times
starstar Jane Horwitz - Washington Post
star Matt Williams - Cinematter
star Maitland McDonagh - TV Guide
star Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times

Cheerful and bogus enough to keep children reasonably entertained

- Janet Maslin

Could have been co-directed by Orson Welles and Steven Spielberg and still be unwatchable, because of that damned snowman . . . . Never have I disliked a movie character more

- Roger Ebert

Jack Frost

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Michael Keaton gets a second chance to see his family when he comes back to life as a snowman. Kelly Preston, Joseph Cross, Mark Addy, Henry Rollins, Mika Boorem, Andrew Lawrence, Eli Marienthal, Will Rothhaar, Benjamin Brock, Taylor Handley, Joe Rokicki, Cameron Ferre. Director: Troy Miller (1998, PG)

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