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‘100 Nights of Hero’ Review: A Mischievous Fairytale Laid Low by Its Withheld Approach

December 5, 2025

Dec 4, 2025 9:30pm PT ‘100 Nights of Hero’ Review: A Mischievous Fairytale Laid Low by Its Withheld Approach In her sophomore effort, Julia Jackman spins a magical realist yarn in the vein of 'The Arabian Nights.' By Siddhant Adlakha Plus Icon Siddhant Adlakha Latest ‘My Father and Qaddafi’ Review: A Personal Documentary Portrait of a Disappeared Father 2 days ago ‘I’m Not Everything I Want to Be’ Review: A Queer Czech Photographer Co-Authors Her Documentary 4 weeks ago ‘Baahubali: The Epic’ Review: S. S. Rajamouli’s Landmark Blockbuster Ascends Into Myth 1 month ago See All IFC Resplendent in costume and production design, but shaky in overall execution, the star-studded fantasy romance “100 Nights of Hero” is the second feature from writer-director Julia Jackman. Based on the graphic novel by Isabel Greenberg, it takes its cues from “One Thousand and One Nights” (or “The Arabian Nights”) of West Asian folklore, responsible for such cultural mainstays as Aladdin, Sinbad and Ali Baba.

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However, in Jackman’s movie, these narrative layers aren’t nearly as fantastical as their forebears from the Islamic Golden Age.
They serve as thinly veiled extensions for their fictitious storyteller: a Scheherazade stand-in, whose queer reimagining works far better in theory than in practice.
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A child with godlike powers, referred to as “kiddo” (Safia Oakley-Green) defies her carnivalesque father, “Birdman” (Richard E.
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