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So it is with the first movie made from Philip Pullman’s astonishing “His Dark Materials” trilogy, “The Golden Compass,” a complex, mystically gorgeous, spiritually dense, big-budget fantasy epic so far removed from the cute wizardry of Harry Potter and the thin, simpleminded Christian morality of say, “The Chronicles of Narnia,” it might as well be a Coen brothers movie. On acid.
