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"The Magic Flute is Kenneth Branagh''s third release this year after As You Like It and Sleuth, completing his most prolific directorial run since the early part of 1990s," writes the Telegraph''s Tim Robey. "It may well be the best of the three, but dare we ask him to get back to acting now? Plonking Mozart''s phantasmagorical opera down in the trenches of the First World War is vintage Branagh - daring but silly."

"The horrors of Flanders provide a strange but satisfying glue," counters Charlotte O''Sullivan in the Evening Standard. "For the first time ever, the plot made sense to me."

Updated through 12/1.

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