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"Where the Wild Things Are" is an intensely original and haunting movie, though by far the most important figure here proves to be the director Spike Jonze, rather than any of the characters. After years in the news, the project and its improbability — a live-action movie based on a slender, illustrated children’s book that runs fewer than 40 pages, some without any words at all — are no longer a surprise. Even so, it startles and charms and delights largely because Mr. Jonze’s filmmaking exceeds anything he’s done in either of his inventive previous features. With “Where the Wild Things Are” he has made a work of art that stands up to its source and, in some instances, surpasses it. It opens today.






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