NETFLIX | Damsel

Millie Bobby Brown fights that strangest of things—a dragon—in this terrific adventure

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FANTASY Stranger Things star Brown continues to forge her path as Netflix’s leading lady, picking vehicles that neatly fit her talent and temperament. Considering she just turned 20, this is nothing to sneeze at. There’s her intrepid work as Eleven in all those seasons of the phenomenally popular Things. Then she had her own solo success on the streaming platform with 2020’s Enola Holmes, a sprightly Victorian mystery in which she played Sherlock Holmes’s sister, followed by a 2022 sequel (with a third film expected). Now she stars in a medieval action fantasy—a highly entertaining one—and proves that she can handle a dragon just as well as Emilia Clarke’s Daenerys Targaryen did on HBO’s Game of Thrones. Better, actually, when you remember how all that firepower messed with Daenerys’s mind. A red-hot mess, that one!