‘The Wave’ Review: Sebastián Lelio’s Feminist Protest Musical is Vibrantly Staged but Dramatically Flat

Perhaps coincidentally, the title “The Wave” recalls Todd Strasser’s 1980s YA novel of that name, which became a staple of Gen-X and early-millennial English syllabi, on the strength of some easily digestible allegory in its tale of a notionally empowering student movement gone fascistically awry. A fast-building student movement is also the subject of Sebastián […]