2020 · fantasy · family · tv-movie
Upside-Down Magic
Directed by Joe Nussbaum1h 36m2020
Nory and her best friend Reina enter the Sage Academy for Magical Studies, where Nory’s unconventional powers land her in a class for those with wonky, or “upside-down,” magic. Undaunted, Nory sets out to prove that that upside-down magic can be just as powerful as right-side-up.
Our read: Upside-Down Magic (2020) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive fantasy · family · tv-movie entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle fantasy / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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