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LA Film Festival Reviews: &#039;Ernest &amp; Celestine&#039; and &#039;Life of a King&#039; - Daily Bruin

LA Film Festival Reviews: &#8216;Ernest &#038; Celestine&#8217; and &#8216;Life of a King&#8217;

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Saturday brought me to “Ernest &amp; Celestine,” the most adorable children’s movie I’ve seen in, well, ever, and “Life of a King,” a not-at-all cute but equally lesson-oriented film on the true story of Eugene Brown, who started a widely adopted inner-city chess program.

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LA Film Festival Reviews: ‘Ernest & Celestine’ and ‘Life of a King’

By Tony Huang

June 23, 2013 2:59 p.m.