Uglies

Uglies (2024) is a dystopian sci-fi adventure you can watch online on iFILM, directed by McG from Scott Westerfeld's bestselling novel. In this future, every teen undergoes mandatory surgery at sixteen that turns them into a flawless beauty. Until then, you're simply labeled an Ugly.

Tally Youngblood is counting down to her sixteenth birthday and her ticket into glittering New Pretty Town, where the operated live in endless luxury. Then her best friend Shay bolts the night before the procedure, joining a hidden community of runaways who refuse to have their faces changed. The authorities corner Tally with a brutal choice: track Shay down and turn her in, or stay ugly forever. The deeper she goes, the more she learns that perfect looks come at a far darker price.

Joey King leads as Tally, with Brianne Tju as Shay, plus Keith Powers, Chase Stokes and Laverne Cox as the system's icy enforcer. This young-adult adaptation aims at a familiar target: beauty standards and the pressure of curated image. It doesn't reinvent the genre, but it delivers honestly for fans of teen sci-fi. Stream Uglies (2024) online on iFILM.