Little Women: See it again for the first time

The March sisters: Emma Watson (Meg), Florence Pugh (Amy), Saoirse Ronan (Jo), Eliza Scalen (Beth).

It may be difficult to believe that the seventh (count them, 1917, 1918, 1933, 1949, 1994, 2018, 2019) film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's glorious 1868 novel comes to the big screen with all the amazing, heart-grabbing beauty of a brand new story.

Believe the Movie Slut when she says it does.

The story is as fresh, the characters as engaging, the plots as captivating, the emotion as intense as if the book they're based on is hot off the press. If anything, the plight of women for whom marriage is the only option and often an economic decision is more resonant today when women's inequality is a hot  topic.

Director/screenwriter Greta Gerwig deserves much of the credit for this marvel of a movie that will sweep you into the home and hearts of the little March women. If she doesn't win an Oscar, the Movie Slut will be apoplectic.