Most children’s movies give you a scaled-down, fictional world soaked with condescension and phony naivete. The moviemakers usually start by talking down to the kids who are supposedly their … ...

“A Little Princess” (Alfonso Cuaron, 1995) at 7 p.m. on Encore. Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 19th Century schoolgirl’s classic about rich but unsnobbish little Sara (Liesel Matthews ...