CRUELLA MOVIE SPIN-OFF 101 Dalmatians back story is no dog’s dinner

I, Tonya’s Craig Gillespie directs this stylish, fun crime caper. It’s the origin story of Cruella de Vil, the villain of Dodie Smith’s novel The Hundred And One Dalmatians, which has inspired several films. In this one, little Estella, the only child of a single mother, is clever and has an eye for fashion, but she can also be cruel. When she falls in with the wrong crowd in 1970s London, she uses her alter ego Cruella to pursue a feud with a haute-couture designer, the Baroness. Emma Stone (right) plays Cruella, Emma Thompson is the Baroness, and both are on top form. The costumes and the soundtrack are fabulous. Disney+, from Friday