Though hardly radical, Giant Little Ones advocacy for empathy is warmly argued – perhaps encouraging you, in kind, to forgive this slight film’s shortcomings.

Gloria Bell is so comfortable in its skin because it’s a second skin. The talented Chilean writer-director Sebastian Lelio has done this before.

It’s as if the group had studied the Rabbit season! Duck season! exchange from the Bugs Bunny-Daffy Duck classic and figured out how to turn the punchline into a political movement.

There’s a giddy “while the cat’s away the mouse will play” mischievous energy, and more space than ever for Harley’s character arc and relationships to take center stage.

Moss strips away every shred of her charm to reveal her charisma in its rawest state, implicating Perry and the audience in a voyeurism that can feel almost holy.

Proof that TV is now the best medium for bringing epic literary fantasy to the screen.