Movie · Netflix · 2022
The School for Good and Evil
49Or leave it.Not an average of critics. Eight questions, one house.
The question is the right question. The movie answers it with a wardrobe.
The glance
Industry, Piety, Stewardship are the thin ones.
This phone
Set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
After the credits
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
Sophie wants the story that flatters her. Agatha is filed under witch because she does not. The school is a machine for that filing, and the film is sharp enough to hate the machine for an hour. Then it spends the second hour on transformations, a prince, and a last battle, which is how a fantasy tells you it ran out of nerve.
Watchable at thirteen if you are willing to pause on the sort: who decided, and what did it cost the girl who believed the decision. Do not let the gowns be the lesson.
Folio
Keep The School for Good and Evil in the record.
The date, your number, and one sentence.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
The eight
Industry
4/10
A school, mostly of gowns and fights. Study is a montage.
Household
6/10
The friendship is the spine. Parents are the door they left through.
Piety
3/10
Good and evil are houses, then costumes. A creed never arrives.
Courage
6/10
Each girl refuses the role the school hands her. That refusal is the courage.
Republic
5/10
An institution sorting children. The sort is the villainy.
Temperance
5/10
PG-13 and long. The violence is storybook until it isn't.
Truth
6/10
It says the label was a lie. It is less sure what the truth would require.
Stewardship
4/10
A fairy tale ought to hand a child a standard. This one hands a look.
Live historicallyAsk which friend in her life has been cast as the witch, and whether the cast was fair.