To fully explore all the side themes she mentions and add material to clearly teach against possible misunderstandings and heresies, as she seems to want to do, would turn these movies into 15-hour long unwatchable messes.
Suffice to say that we shouldn't expect to learn precise doctrine from a movie. This critic would better serve the Christian community by producing a "Questions for discussion" type guide to go along WITH the movies in question, for churches and families and so forth to use as a tool for discussing the movie amongst themselves afterwards, what they can learn from it and what they should keep in mind is not always true in real life.
For example, such a guide could point out that God's blessings do not always come in this life, and may not by cushy prizes that we can sit on our rump and enjoy. But they are things that can help us grow in our faith or grow in other ways.
To give an example, a few years ago I faced debilitating pain from what turned out to be a classic case of a slipped lower lumbar disc. Rather than avoiding physical activities I learned to embrace hard physical labor around my rural property. It strengthens my trunk muscles, keeping my spinal column cinched down, which in turn keeps the disc in place better. And this in turn has made me much more fit and healthy than I as a middle-aged man with a sedentary desk job than I could otherwise expect. Sometimes blessings come with some pain. It's a fair point, and maybe a good one for the next Kendrick film...
I’ve seen two or three of the Kendrick movies.
I liked them - at the time.
But I posted the article because the author reminded me of the sugary-high-then-hangover that I had after thinking about the content of the movies.