Cinderella (2021)

"Drags the princess tale into the 21st century with Top-40 pop songs, self-aware dialogue and a trite girlboss sensibility."

"At times it seems more like a college lecture than a frothy musical. But it’s also upending decades of ingrained expectations... so you can’t blame Cannon too much for hitting viewers over the head."

"A colourful distraction lacking enough magic to fulfill dreams or wishes."

"Mediocre..."

"If this most recent reboot, with its heavy-handed feminist messaging, had been released decades ago, it might have stood a chance at being subversive."

"Amounts to a two-hour music video."

"Strident, sassy and silly, all at once."

"It will make a nice weekend watch for a lot of people, I think. But it also feels uncomfortably algorithmic..."

"The insistence of the message-making means Cinderella and her Prince fall short of making magic together."

"James Corden has made a #Girlboss fairytale only a voracious capitalist could love..."

"An irritating script ruins the sincere magic of the beloved story..."

"Less a movie than a string of TikTok clips..."

"Sure, some of the characters actions and motivations don’t exactly make a lick of sense, but as Porter’s sparkling sprite suggests, “let’s not ruin the magical moment with reason”."