“Golden Compass” movie criticism

Newsweek reports:

“The Golden Compass,” New Line’s $150 million film adaptation of the first volume in Philip Pullman’s best-selling fantasy trilogy “His Dark Materials,” stands accused of being both anti-Catholic and not anti-Catholic enough - though no one making either claim has actually seen it, reports Senior Editor Devin Gordon in the December 3 issue of Newsweek. The Catholic League is urging families to boycott a film in which the word “Catholic” is never uttered.

The story is available on NYTimes.com. (I’m still trying - and failing - to understand why it’s filed under Business and Financial News.)