‘100 Nights of Hero’ Review: Emma Corrin, Maika Monroe and Charli xcx Rock Cool Frocks in a Style-Over-Substance Fantasy Film

‘100 Nights of Hero’ Review: Emma Corrin, Maika Monroe and Charli xcx Rock Cool Frocks in a Style-Over-Substance Fantasy Film

Nicholas Galitzine co-stars in writer-director Julia Jackman's Venice-bowing second feature, based on a graphic novel by Isabel Greenberg.

100 Nights of Hero – first-look review

Julia Jackman's adaptation of Isabel Greenberg's graphic novel is a charming, ambitious queer fantasy. No one could accuse writer and director Julia Jackman of lack of ambition. Her second feature, shot with the visual flair and deadpan drollery of Wes Anderson or Yorgos Lanthimos, is based on a graphic novel that reinterprets the One Thousand and One Nights as a queer fairy tale about a kingdom that suppresses women’s education in service of a …