Female Film Critics 24/375
There is much to unpack in Uta Briesewitz’s new feature American Sweatshop. The film follows Daisy, a 25-year-old whose job is inarguably the worst. She is a social media content moderator. Daisy spends her days watching morally questionable videos reported by the online community. She then decides whether they warrant a pass based on Freedom of Speech or if they are hateful, offensive, gory, or unlawful enough to hit delete.
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A so-called “prequel,” Cruella quotes more than it originates. Set in the punking ’70s in London, the film traces the early days of the evil-doer known as Cruella back to the time that she was Estella. Even as a child, her white and black hair symbolized her good and evil sides.
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Cruella just may be the best movie of the year, daaaaaahling. It’s Wicked mixed with The Devil Wears Prada, and it’s so edgy and full of life (and, yes, some death), it brings Disney into the 21st century.
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You’ve got to hand it to the Mouse. Disney can make a princess out of anyone, even one of its legendary villains, Cruella De Ville, a kind of hard-hearted Snow White whose Evil Queen is her designer boss, the Baroness. For those of us who grew up loathing that simpering, eventually sleeping princess, this is more like it: a princess who gives as good as she gets.
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