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Damsel review: Why is Millie Bobby Brown wasting her time on this blunt-force empowerment dreck?

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’s micro-industry continues apace with , which revives the , dresses it up for ren faire, and then strips it of all its joy. Here, the star plays the headstrong, pure-hearted Elodie, a dutiful child to , and a loving stepdaughter to Angela Bassett’s Lady Bayford. She agrees to be married off to a prince (Nick Robinson) in order to save their fiefdom from ruin.

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