Profoundly overrated, trope after trope

Rating: Null/10 (8 January 2020)

My niece is at NYU film school and this was recently voted there as the most overrated film of the past 25 years.
First of all the novel is quite shallow and full of stereotypes, including the racist "magic negro" trope. The film is so saccharine and formulaic as to be cringeworthy.