The Secret Garden

You can find a “visually opulent” new adaptation of The Secret Garden currently available on demand, but turn to Agnieszka Holland’s 1993 version to see the novel’s main character perfectly realized, said Sheena Scott in Forbes.com. Mary Lennox is “essentially a very annoying spoiled brat in the beginning,” but we never lose sympathy for the orphaned girl as she moves to her uncle’s Yorkshire manor and discovers a long-neglected garden as well as a cousin who’s been kept shut away. Aided by Roger Deakins’ cinematography, the film “touches on the magical imagination of children without pushing the magical realism too far.” (G) HBO Max