FILM

Ryan Gilbey
Thursday 14 December 1995 19:02 EST
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Babe A delightfully dotty children's adventure about Babe (right), a pig who thinks he's a sheepdog. Expertly integrating puppetry, animatronics and human actors, it's the best family film of the season.

Sister My Sister A chilly mood piece about two incestuous maids (Joely Richardson and the superb Jodhi May) in 1930s France who decide to do away with their wealthy employer, Julie Walters. Director Nancy Meckler frames the scenes as though arranging bodies on the slab, but there are glowing embers within these actresses which light the way through murky territory.

The Santa Clause I loathed Home Improvement too but when you see that dull sitcom's Tim Allen on the big screen, you know that's where he belongs. The plot is a spaghetti junction of twisted logic in which Allen dons a Santa Claus suit and finds himself sprouting silver whiskers and a beer belly. Against the odds, this looks like the Christmas comedy.

RYAN GILBEY

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