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2/10 After two years of post-production, you’d think The New Mutants would at least be organized.
In The New Mutants, Dani Moonstar (Blu Hunt) awakens imprisoned in a facility for adolescent mutants who have killed people with their emerging powers. Moonstar has vast psionic powers, but her primary ability is to conjure the deepest fears of anyone she meets, something she has no control over at this point in her life — obviously, this causes several problems. She is held with Scottish werewolf Rahne Sinclair (Maisie Williams of Game of Thrones fame), Russian magician Illyana Rasputin (Anya Taylor-Joy, who had just starred in The Witch), Kentucky coal miner Sam Guthrie (Charlie Heaton from Stranger Things) and young Brazilian billionaire Bobby da Costa (Henry Zaga, who had a bit part in 13 Reasons Why). Their only captor is Cecilia Reyes (Alice Braga), who is ostensibly treating them, but takes her orders from a mysterious superior meant to set up the sequel that will never happen.
If there is one unequivocally good thing about 2020, it’s that 1990 is now exactly 30 years ago. Because mass media nostalgia famously operates in 30 year cycles – roughly, 

