The School for Good and Evil wants to flip the fairy tale script — but stumbles into every cliché it claims to subvert. From shallow world-building to cowardly storytelling, it’s a sugar-coated Harry Potter knockoff too scared to follow through on its own moral.
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The School for Good and Evil (2022): A Fairy Tale for Dummies

The School for Good and Evil is a pretty idea — pretty dumb. In the first scene, a character challenges another to a “no holds barred” sword fight. This begs a question the film is far too lazy to …

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Disney’s Artemis Fowl wants you to believe its lead is a criminal mastermind. The problem? He never has to outsmart anyone — just read the script ahead of time.
Now playing: smug prodigies, barked Judi Dench orders, and the least convincing evil plan this side of a cereal box.
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Artemis Fowl: A Master Plan Without a Mastermind

When Disney released Artemis Fowl in 2020, they positioned it as the next big fantasy franchise: Harry Potter meets Men in Black, filtered through Irish mythology. What audiences got instead was an…

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