Charleroi, the Land of 60 Mountains 

A man struggling with the death of his son agrees to coach his former high school basketball team.

The film exhibits a respect for the craft and an empathy for human tribulations that have historically been ignored.

Diana’s spirit has taken off, ‘No right, no wrong, no rules for me.’ And in that moment, as she runs on the screen, she gets it, her ‘Let It Go’ moment.

By undermining the appeal and credibility of black characters, the show compromises the very idea of diversity and representation it sets to promote.

These confines won’t really encourage you to read the film as a metaphor for the nerve-inducing experience we’ve all been through over the last year, however — and in the interest of maintaining your dignity, you probably shouldn’t. While the sociopolitical commentary may have worked for the similarly-themed Buried (2010), in which we find Ryan Reynolds on his own buried alive in the Middle East, but this futuristic take on the premise is best left as a piece of distracting entertainment. Nevertheless, the atmosphere is no less suffocating, literally and dramatically.

Emily Henry’s adaptation reaches romance movie standards, but not romance reader standards.