Woman King – 5

A charitable view sees this as a Marvel super-hero tale, ignoring the “inspired by true events” prologue, for there is not a believable action or bit of dialogue in the entire film. The battles are bloody and one-sided and the moral message is simplistic: “palm oil good, slavery bad.” A mature Viola Davis is rather a stretch as the Kirk Douglas/Chris Hemsworth figure, but two of her lieutenants are more appealing, and John Boyega does what he can in this orgy of Black woman triumphalism.