This is Storm's movie, it just is.

Be warned that this is not the book. I re-read the book and (bluntly) a lot of it doesn't hold up so well today, so the filmmakers took a lot of risks: some paid off and some didn't. Some of them actively backfired because they contradicted the integrity of remaining bits of source material. Some very interesting visual decisions were set up well but then filmed shockingly badly so they couldn't really be seen. But Storm Reid actively carries this movie with a performance so natural that I can't confirm she was acting; +2 stars just for the strength of her lead. She drops multiple choke-up moments over the run-time: the principal's office early in the film is the first and the least of them; if you don't feel it at all then this movie's probably not for you.

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