“Matilda” Review

Matilda Wormwood is an brilliant and intelligent little girl. Unfortunately, her parents, Harry and Zinnia, fail to see that fact. As time passes, she finally starts school and has a kind teacher, loyal friends, and a terrifying, sadistic headmistress. As she becomes fed up with the constant cruelty, she discovers she has a special gift that she just might be able to use to outwit the unruly adults around her.

I have no memory of seeing this before and when I said as such to my wife while she was endlessly scrolling through thousands of movies and television episodes. I’m not sure what I was expecting, but a story about a neglectful family and a downright criminally abusive school forging a young girl into a Jean Grey level of telekinetic mutant was not on my list. It’s a fun movie and plays all the horror elements as whimsical and wonderous, but if you were to look too closely at any one element, you may not like what you see.

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