Cinderella

If you like your fairy tales de-constructed and re-imagined, like the Maleficent version of Sleeping Beauty or The Huntsman version of Snow White, you've had plenty of them. The new movie "Cinderella" is neither re-imagined nor twisted, but true to the story.

There's modern touches. "On occasion, the film pokes a little fun at conventional fairytale tropes, as in a scene when the ball is about to begin: The king chides his son for wanting to marry a woman he's seen only once in the woods, and Kit retorts that everyone else is expecting him to marry a woman after seeing her only once at a ball."

This beautiful heroine takes to heart her mother's dying message, "Have courage and be kind."

Kindness as a superpower, as director Kenneth Branagh puts it, must be done with a light touch to prevent sweetness from becoming cloying. Any fairy tale goodness will be cloying for some people, but Branagh has achieved that light touch - even the reviews are good.