WONDER WOMAN 1984 Reviews Describe a Bright, Hopeful Sequel
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Wonder Woman 1984 is nearly here. We waited months for Patty Jenkins’ follow-up to one of the most beloved modern superhero films to arrive. Does
WW84 live up to all the anticipation? Judging from the reviews, most critics seem to think so! It seems that the joyful optimism of the film is exactly what we needed this year.
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Read just some of the reviews pouring in for Wonder Woman’s second solo cinematic outing below:
Alex Abad-Santos of
Wonder Woman 1984 is a better romantic comedy than superhero film, but it nails important traits about Diana. Such as how much she loves “the beauty of the world and learning all of its languages, relishes her sacred duty to protect the innocent and fight for those who cannot fight themselves, and dreams of making the world better, one good deed at a time.”
At long last,
Wonder Woman 1984 will be making its way to an audience be it on television screens at home, courtesy of Warner Bros. decision to release the film onto HBO Max, or even on the big screen at whichever theaters are still open for business.
The sequel to 2017 s
Wonder Woman, a movie that cemented a whole new generation of fans for its titular hero, sees the return of director Patty Jenkins at the helm, and Gal Gadot as the Amazonian Princess Diana Prince. Joining her are
The Mandalorian s Pedro Pascal as scheming businessman Maxwell Lord, Kristen Wiig as gemologist-turned-villain Barbara Minerva (aka Cheetah), and Chris Pine as Steve Trevor, Diana s mysteriously returned love interest.
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Farewell Amor begins with a hello: Walter (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine), an Angolan immigrant living in New York City, greets his wife Esther (Zainab Jah) and teenage daughter Sylvia (Jayme Lawson) at the airport. After 17 years apart, his family has come to join him in the U.S.
Seventeen years is a long time, though, and none of them are the same as when they parted. Each harbors a private devotion, developed in the intervening years, that belongs only to themselves and threatens the fragile stability of their freshly reunited family. Walter can’t get over his ex-girlfriend, whose mail still comes to his one-bedroom apartment and whose fragrance lingers on a set of sheets he hides in a closet. Esther has become fanatically religious and clings that much harder to her Christianity sometimes with demonstrations of devoutness that materially hurt her husband and daughter amid the emotional chaos of displacement.
If the great existential question that is this whole godforsaken year hasn’t been enough for you, writer-director Tara Miele’s indie drama
Wander Darkly, which premiered at Sundance in January, takes on a doozy. Though at first seeming to ask what happens when we die, the film instead becomes a rumination on what makes life worth living.
Adrienne (Sienna Miller) and Matteo (Diego Luna) are an unmarried couple living in L.A. who share a baby daughter, a precarious financial situation, and a mountain of tension built of suspicion, resentment, and stress. One night, driving home from a party where they could barely conceal their dysfunction from their friends, just as they argue about whether their life together is even worth salvaging at all, they get into an accident. Adrienne dies.