Marvelous and the Black Hole Review: Appealing Odd-Couple Ode to the Magic of, Well, Magic Marvelous and the Black Hole Review: Appealing Odd-Couple Ode to the Magic of, Well, Magic
A young girl forms an unlikely bond with an eccentric magician in this predictable but gently winning and peppily performed coming-of-ager.
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Not quite adult enough to be young adult, and not quite a children’s film either, Kate Tsang’s “Marvelous and the Black Hole” is a sweet-natured throwback, the kind of film a parent might wish their young teen would watch, rather than whichever dystopian franchise or fanfic adaptation they’re currently involved with. A set-your-watch-by-it riff on the unlikely-friendship-helps-two-lonely-people formula, this time involving a troubled schoolgirl and a stage magician, it is however so nicely performed and takes such honest pleasure in the flourishes of its little magic show, that only a hard heart would