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December 18, 2020
At the Movies: Wonder Woman combats a huckster's rise in ‘1984'
By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
AP Film Writer
“Wonder Woman 1984,” Patty Jenkins' time-traveling sequel to 2017's record-setting “Wonder Woman,” shuttles Gal Gadot's warrior to the era of Regan economics, parachute pants and “Rio.”
If you're going to make a movie about wish fulfillment, 1980s America is about as good as you can do for a setting outside the Arabian Desert.
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