Nadia, a mother and her two children: Valeria and Julián, both teenagers, make up a simple and united family. We see them in their daily lives: sharing meals, doing homework and even dancing, until one night Julián can't take it anymore and opens his mother's eyes begging her to end her insane fantasy. And from that moment on, Nadia will no longer be able to escape her reality. Her daughter is gone, her room is empty, and the dining table no longer has three places, but only two. And this is how we get to the last scene of this story: Nadia decides to do something with her pain and joins the “Las Vigilantas”.
Ultra-violent storytelling has never been my thing, but the issues with Scarface go beyond that. The film perpetuates harmful stereotypes about Latinx immigrants and uses gore and misogyny for shock value that never serves any purpose. The whole venture is frustratingly empty, and left me desiring something more.
I write for a diversity-focused film review blog, so I’ll be honest: I really wanted to like Pretty Lethal. Starring Maddie Ziegler, Lana Condor, Iris Apatow, Avantika, and Millicent Simmonds, Amazon Prime’s new thriller seemed like it would be a girl power movie about dancers with a horror action twist. Sort of a Suspiria for teens. But with shallow and unlikeable characters, a confusing plot, an overreliance on violence, and cringey dialogue, any fun the movie started out with was quickly lost. What was left was a faint echo of greater horror movies about dancers made before.
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Bollywood's new superhero universe is a romantic, fantasy, and action-packed journey of a young warrior who rises to save the world with superpowers.
