Damsel
Though Netflix’s latest female-led action flick was released on International Women’s Day, Damsel makes an unconvincing case to empower anybody. Especially when the film stops in its tracks to have its heroine Elodie (Stranger Things’ Millie Bobby Brown) denounce the story’s deliberate discriminatory attitude towards young women. However, if viewers are looking for a fun romp where that same heroine is in a cavernous cat-and-mouse chase from a fire-breathing, angry dragon, Damsel is just the…