"100 Nights of Hero" is a pleasant little nothing of a movie, which is only a big problem in as much as it so clearly wants to be something. If you're making a film about the power of stories to change the world, you most likely don't want your own storytelling to be so flimsy. There are pleasures to be had here: Emma Corrin and Maika Monroe are cute together as secret lesbian lovers, Nicholas Galitzine's himbo goofiness and Felicity Jones' sardonic narration offer a decent amount of laughs, and the Wes Anderson-lite fantasy aesthetic is appealing throughout. I don't even object to the film's big messages being simple and obvious. But did the presentation of these messages have to feel so simple and obvious?

I have not read the graphic novel by Isabel Greenberg that writer-director Julia

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