Fantasy Reviews and Features | Little White Lies

Genre Fantasy

Two Black women with curly hair, one wearing a black top and the other wearing a printed top, sitting on a bench and engaging in conversation.
Review

Little

by Charles Bramesco

Regi­na Hall is trans­formed into a younger ver­sion of her­self in this deriv­a­tive age-swap comedy.

2
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
1
In Retrospect
Elephant calf resting on hay, large eyes and trunk visible.
Review

Dumbo

by Hannah Strong

Tim Burton’s over­stuffed and under­whelm­ing sideshow act lacks a sense of wonder.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
Two people gazing at a dystopian city skyline with industrial chimneys and smoke.
Review

Love, Death & Robots

by Charles Bramesco

This NSFW ani­mat­ed anthol­o­gy sees Tim Miller and David Finch­er team up to dis­as­trous effect.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
1
In Retrospect
A woman in a police uniform standing in a dimly lit corridor, her expression stern and focused.
Review

Border

by Anton Bitel

A cus­toms offi­cer falls in love with a strange trav­eller in Ali Abbasi’s twist­ed mod­ern romance.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
A young boy wearing a red jacket holding a sword in a landscape setting.
Review

The Kid Who Would Be King

by Jake Cunningham

A group of school kids embark on an Arthuri­an quest in Joe Cornish’s charm­ing adven­ture movie.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
A woman wearing a red hat with a flower, a blue ruffled coat, and a polka dot scarf, standing in a grassy, wooded area.
Review

Mary Poppins Returns

by David Jenkins

Everyone’s favourite mag­i­cal child car­er is back in this strange­ly bland and uncatchy mod­ern refit.

4
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
Two people gazing intensely at each other, a man wearing a jersey with a large number on it and a woman with curly hair.
Review

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

by Karen Krizanovich

Frank Capra’s fes­tive clas­sic returns to the big screen this Christ­mas – and it’s an oppor­tu­ni­ty not to be missed.

5
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
Muscular man with trident standing in waterfall, wearing yellow and blue costume.
Review

Aquaman

by Elena Lazic

DC Comics chance their arm with this zany, enter­tain­ing and fre­quent­ly con­found­ing under­wa­ter epic.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
A person with long brown hair wearing a red face mask in a dimly lit room.
Review

Mortal Engines

by Tom Huddleston

Despite some spec­tac­u­lar pro­duc­tion design, this is far from a pre­ci­sion-tooled adap­ta­tion of Philip Reeve’s steam­punk fantasy.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
A young woman with dark hair holding a red and white striped candy cane in the foreground, with a blurred natural background.
Review

Anna and the Apocalypse

by Kelli Weston

The zom­bie apoc­a­lypse hor­ror gets a fun fes­tive makeover cour­tesy of writer/​director John McPhail.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect