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This review was originally published on February 9, 2024.Lisa Frankensteinin nowstreaming on Peacock.

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But as with many of the movies choices, there doesnt seem to be much consideration behind it.

Hell, at least Ally Sheedy inThe Breakfast Cluband Winona Ryder inHeathershad the good sense to be brunettes.

More than anything, though, it owes a debt to Tim Burton.

Theres an emotional core to Burtons work thatLisa Frankensteinlacks.

The worse sin is the way the movie squanders scenes that should be transcendently ecstatic or transcendently silly.

Teenage girls can be dark, and horny, and obsessive, and secretive, and unhappy.

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