Streaming: the greatest female action hero films

Gal Gadot’s second outing as Wonder Woman consolidates her place in cinema’s firmament of superheroes who have had to fight all the way…The uncontested tentpole attraction of this pandemic winter, Wonder Woman 1984 is finally out on non-premium VOD and DVD from Monday.

Most DC franchise fans have doubtless checked it out already, and got the kicks they wanted.

Patty Jenkins’s long, busy follow-up to her 2017 smash has slightly less to offer casual viewers, though for the lockdown-fatigued it’s a suitably distracting spectacle of many moving parts.The follow-up was always going to struggle to live up to the largely delighted reception afforded its predecessor (on Amazon Prime), which, as the first female-led entry in a culture-consuming rise of superhero blockbusters, was so overdue as to be genuinely rousing in its arrival.

A sequel could only be more pro forma by comparison.

But it seals the

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