100 WORD FILM REVIEWS / Gretel & Hansel

Gretel & Hansel: B-

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This Gretel & Hansel is different from the original Grimm fairy tale. It’s not revisionist nor retold, but refocused. The focus is now on an older Gretel, deftly played by Sophia Lillis, whose own interior may be just as dark as the original tale. There’s an excellent turn of acting by Alice Krige who plays the creepy old woman archetype. She may be sincerely creepy, or does she just seem that way to Gretel?  A little more gore is needed. The mostly excellent direction from Oz Perkins stumbles when the pacing at the end needs less telling, and more showing.

Jennifer Lemming, Staff Writer

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