This no-plan-just-passing-a-cinema experience turned out to
be a very enjoyable one. The new witch in town comes lugging familial baggage
and falls in love with local good egg in the run up to her eighteenth
birthday - a day which may bring the
potential for all sorts of major world-ending bad stuff to go down.
The central relationship is believable and engaging whilst
the supporting thesps have a camp-athon. Emma Thompson turns it up to 11 channelling
her best Maleficient whilst Jeremy Irons, his wobbly accent sometimes changing
mid-sentence, hams with aplomb. Their ecclesiastical showdown is a treat.
Keep an eye out for a young actor – Alden Ehrenrich – in
both this and Stoker. Alongside Jack Reynor he’s one to watch.
Big grinning fun without the grating earnestness of many a
teen supernatural franchise.
6/10
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