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MR. CONGENIALITY

“A dog,” as the charity slogan goes, “is for life, not just for Christmas.” But for anyone who’s watched — the 1998 anthropomorphic spin on Charles Dickens’ much adapted novella, and the last instalment in the admittedly mawkish film series — it’s tricky not to associate the

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