"Gerwig’s refusal to engage with feminist ideas beyond those that pertain to Alcott’s time risks celebrating a socially conservative present." - that's it. Politically it hardly goes beyond A Room of One's Own, and since now women can have their own property, it lets the spectator free to give her sight of relief and uncritically enjoy some nostalgic beauty.

“With an ironising retrospective gaze, Little Women falls in line with what Owen Hatherley calls the “ironic-authoritarian-consumerist dreamworld” of the nostalgia industry which simplifies, limits and depoliticises the past for easy consumption in the modern marketplace.”