The new girl in school, revealing an ability to stand a pencil on its point, completes the circle of an extracurricular coven. An "empowerment" fantasy, for feminist teens in particular. But power corrupts, doesn't it? The inevitable falling-out (with the tranquilized Robin Tunney representing Good, the flamboyant Fairuza Balk representing Evil) is too long in coming, but something to see -- including an old-fashioned unspectacular effect, out of the pages of M.R. James, of a framed photograph shifting into motion. With Assumpta Serna, Helen Shaver; directed by Andrew Fleming. (1996) — Duncan Shepherd
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