The new adaptation of "Anne of Green Gables" falls prey to the war on whimsy, the tired modern tactic of reworking the classics in order to make them “realistic.”
"I find it concerning that this reviewer does not treat the story more seriously as a forum for ideas and the film's main vehicle for (its own vision of) truth. While it should always be lauded when mainstream films place female characters front and center, and I applaud the film's ability to invite us into the difficult (and all-too-familiar) waters of female disempowerment in male spaces, the story's flaws are too great for me to regard this film as little more than schlocky Hollywood pandering."
