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maltatoday SUNDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2017 44 This Week SO we have come to it at last: DC Comics's most high-powered an- swer to the Marvel Comics movie franchise – the film that collates together a car-crash attempt to replicate Marvel's success. Its most recent installment – Patty Jenkins's competently handled and representationally right-on Wonder Woman – may have served up something resembling a ray of hope in what is otherwise a landscape riddled with awkward, morally questionable non-starters (Man of Steel, 2013, Zack Snyder), disastrous and virtually plotless behemoths of grimdark incompe- tence (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, 2016, also Snyder) and rushed-into-production attempts at injecting some colour and levity into the enterprise (Suicide Squad, 2016, David Ayer). Following all of this, Snyder then reported in for duty to direct Jus- tice League – a keystone of the franchise and the answer to Mar- vel's Avengers... aka, the film that brings together a bunch of DC's heroes. The seeds of such a union were contrived at the tail end of last year's Batman v Superman, when Bruce Wayne/Batman (Ben Af- fleck) sidles up to fellow 'super- friend' Diana Prince/Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) to suggest that, with the recent passing of Clark Kent/Superman (Henry Cavill), it's now more urgent than ever to rally their kind to combat future large-scale threats and raise public morale. Its a goal whose implementation gets an added jolt of urgency once the demonic Steppenwolf (Ciarán Hinds) rips through his interdimensional prison with an army of what look like zombie hornet-men that feed on fear, and begins his working through the various worlds that constitute the DC Universe's orbit in order to find the 'mother boxes': mystical cubes that will help him IN CINEMAS TODAY Embassy Cinemas Valletta Tel. 21 227436, 21 245818 Justice League (3D) (12A) 10:15, 13:30, 16:05, 18:40, 21:15 Paddington 2 (PG) 10:00, 12:10, 14:20, 16:35, 18:50, 21:05 Murder on the Orient Express (12A) 10:30, 13:30, 16:00, 18:30, 21:00 Thor: Ragnarok (12A) 10:25, 14:30, 18:00, 20:50 Daddy's Home 2 (12A) 10:00, 12:15, 14:30, 16:45, 19:00, 21:15 At Eye Level (Auf Augenhohe) (12A) 16:30 Farewell to Europe (Vor der Morgenrote) (12A) 18:30 Wild (18) 21:00 Valletta Living History (U) 10:00, 10:45, 11:30, 12:15, 13:00, 13:45, 14:30, 15:15 Eden Cinemas St Julian's Tel. 23 710400 A Bad Moms Christmas (15) 11:35, 14:05, 16:25, 18:45, 21:05, 23:25 Daddy's Home (TBA) 11:35, 14:10, 16:25, 18:35, 21:00, 23:20 David Hockney at the Royal (PG) 15:05 Geostorm (12A) 14:10, 16:25, 18:45, 21:05 Intimissimi (PG) 18:00 Jigsaw (18) 14:20, 16:25, 18:35, 20:50, 23:00 Justice League (3D) (12) 11:30, 14:00, 15:00, 16:30, 18:00, 20:00, 21:00, 23:00 Murder on the Orient Express (12A) 14:30, 18:10, 20:45, 23:00 Only the Brave (12A) 14:10, 18:00, 20:55 Paddington 2 (PG) 11:50, 14:05, 16:15, 18:30, 20:55 The Mountain Between Us (12A) 11:40, 20:50, 23:10 The Star (U) 11:40, 14:15, 16:25, 18:35, 20:35 Thor: Ragnarok (12) 11:45, 14:30, 18:00, 20:40, 23:20 Winter Brothers (18) 14:10, 18:35 Empire Cinemas Bugibba Tel. 21 581787, 21 581909 The Star (U) 11:15, 14:00, 16:30, 18:35, 20:45 Daddy's Home (12A) 11:00, 13:40, 16:20, 18:40, 20:55 Justice League (12A) 10:40, 13:25, 16:05, 18:40, 21:15 Paddington 2 (PG) 10:45, 13:35, 16:00, 18:25, 20:50 Murder on the Orient Express (12A) 11:00, 13:30, 16:00, 18:30, 20:55 A Bad Moms Christmas (15) 10:55, 13:50, 16:15, 18:40, 21:05 Thor: Ragnarok (12A) 10:30, 13:15, 15:55, 18:35, 21:15 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ JUSTICE LEAGUE ★ ★ ★ ★ JUSTICE FRIENDS ★ ★ ★ JUST-JUSTICE ★ ★ UNJUST ★ PLAIN CRIMINAL FILM By Teodor Reljic Grasping at million- dollar straws JUSTICE LEAGUE (12A) ★ ★ ★ Super friends: Batman (Ben Affleck), Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), Cyborg (Ray Fisher), Flash (Ezra Miller) and Aquaman (Jason Momoa) Quick wit: Ezra Miller's Barry Allen/ The Flash is the team's comic relief

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