Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A young man goes to a sanitarium for a visit and ends up staying for longer than he intended. Or this one: A very important person goes missing and a naive detective is blackmailed into taking the job of finding him. I imagine the elevator pitch for Gore Verbinski’s fantastic contribution to the cannon of weird fiction, A Cure for Wellness, was something along the lines of “Lovecraft meets The Magic Mountain.” (At the Magic Mountains of Madn

One of the summer’s most anticipated films, Wonder Woman promised us a hero’s journey steeped in classical mythology but firmly grounded in our own contemporary matters, all wrapped up in an empowering story of feminine bad-ass-itude. We got a little of that, but what was there was buried so deeply in a mire of bad storytelling that it could easily elude even the most sensitive of Hephaestian metal detectors. Wonder Woman’s flaws are apparent right from the very first scene.