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Byline: John Powers editor: Valerie Steiker
If J. D. Salinger had written Home for the Holidays, the results might look like Arnaud Desplechin's Christmas Tale, in which a clan is brought together by the illness of its redoubtable matriarch (Catherine Deneuve). Featuring a Who's Who of French starsincluding Melvil Poupaud, Chiara Mastroianni, and Mathieu Amalric (the new James Bond villain!)the movie, a sensation at Cannes, captures family life in all its reflexive bickering and quiet tenderness. . . . No movie this year flaunts more storytelling bravado than Slumdog ...