Stargirl

At a time when teen outsiders are having their time in the spotlight, Stargirl feels like a relic, and a prompt for Disney to do a better job at capturing contemporary high-school culture.

Stargirl teaches Leo everything and then teaches herself a thing or two herself as an afterthought. It's hard to work out who it's aimed at, unless teenage boys are suddenly turning to Disney for lessons in life and love.

Stargirl, as essayed by 16-year-old Grace VanderWaal, the ukulele-wielding 2016 winner of America's Got Talent, has a puppy-dog earnestness to recommend her.

Hart gives tired material a jolt of life, which is no easy feat, especially in the churned-out, fast-fiction Y.A. space.

If the one thing Stargirl does is get teens into Big Star and The Cars, then it's done some good in the world.

It's a movie that kind of leaves you just feeling good, wanting to do something good for other people, and also encouraging you to be kinder to yourself.

Stargirl is a character that only appears in certain films and is able to shine a light on the fact that it’s perfectly okay to be different.

A music video posing as a feel good film, Stargirl - like the source material - inherently misunderstands its own message about non-conformity and inadvertently recreates a tired celebration of the manic pixie dream girl. A YA disaster.

[VanderWaal and Verchere] are pleasant together, not enough to break the film out of its tired formula, but enough to put it on wheels.

It's a spirit of unabashed kindness and seemingly irrevocable goodness.