“Black Beauty” gives the original Victorian novel a significant makeover. The movie delivers a more pointed animal-rights message, but while its equine star fares well enough, the two-footed ...

In 1877, Anna Sewell wrote a novel about human kindness and cruelty — all from the point of view of a horse. In the decades since, Black Beauty has been embraced by generations of children, and ...

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Written in 1877, Anna Sewell’s classic children’s novel “Black Beauty” warned against the abuse of horses. The pristine adaptation streaming on Disney+ is a melodrama in need of rougher edges.

Black Beauty director Ashley Avis brought horse girl bonafides to her Disney remake. And that’s why the new film almost had a live horse birth scene ...

Disney’s Black Beauty adaptation is all in on Horse Girl Canon.However, it is not interested in moving the canon forward as a foundational text, as the original Black Beauty would eventually ...

Like Beauty, Foy’s Jo Green has endured horrible tragedy, and as the wild horse and the heart-broken girl slowly bond, “Black Beauty” transforms into a heart-warming tale of the power of love.

‘Black Beauty’ update an uplifting animal story with a beautiful message Kate Winslet voices the horse’s thoughts to heart-melting effect in the family-friendly Disney+ movie.

Black Beauty is so fixated on this duality of girl and horse that it can’t figure out who the real protagonist is. Beauty narrates her story in the voice of Kate Winslet, who speaks in ASMR ...