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Bowie makes another charismatic turn as the King of the Goblins who kidnaps a baby boy in this imaginative Jim Henson film mixing puppetry and live action and executive produced by George Lucas. Connelly stars as the young girl who must navigate a perilous labyrinth to save her brother.
This article appears in September 8 • 2000.
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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years. More by Marjorie Baumgarten
