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In ‘Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,’ a boy on a mission

Thomas Horn is compelling in 9/11 drama

By Wesley Morris

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 20, 2012

*** Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close The 9-year-old protagonist (Thomas Horn) of Stephen Daldry’s movie is a handful. Mostly for an audience tasked with watching him whirl across seemingly every inch of New York’s five boroughs. The film’s whimsy and cuteness should exasperate, but there’s great, poignant urgency at its center, much of it courtesy of Horn and Max von Sydow, who plays his elderly sidekick. With Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, and Viola Davis. Based on Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel. (129 min., PG-13) (Wesley Morris)

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