At long last, fans of Uglies, Scott Westerfeld’s iconic 2005 YA dystopian novel, have received the long-awaited screen adaptation. Somehow, Westerfeld’s series—a teen-targeted social commentary on beauty standards and our collective obsession with them—was skipped over in the late-aughts-to-early-2010s era of making movies out of bestselling postapocalyptic YA novels that gave us franchises like The Hunger Games,