Film review: Wonder Woman

Patty Jenkins isn’t the first woman to direct a superhero movie, but having parted ways with Marvel on Thor: The Dark World, she’s the first to get a shot at a mega-budget summer blockbuster with a top-tier, globally recognisable character. That it should be Wonder Woman gives it an added sweetness. Accordingly, she’s made a movie that does justice to the Amazon demi-goddess, eschewing the glibness of some of the Marvel movies and the grimness of some of the more recent outings for Wonder Woman’s DC colleagues to deliver an origins story that’s earnest yet fun and exciting without being grandiose.