And the Oscar goes to ... Wonder Woman! Can a superhero film take home best picture?

Patty Jenkins’ blockbuster torpedoed sexist stereotypes and triumphed at the box office. Now it faces its biggest challenge: winning over Academy voters

Dickens’s line, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” seems strangely appropriate to the world of comic-book movies in 2017. Over the past couple of years we’ve seen some of the worst superhero films ever committed to celluloid , among them Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad. Yet we’ve also been treated to more glowingly reviewed comic-book films than ever before.

Rotten Tomatoes rates X-Men spin-off Logan, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Homecoming and The Lego Batman Movie all among the year’s best-reviewed films. And that’s to not mention Marvel’s new effort, Thor: Ragnarok (amazingly at 98% at the time of writing) and Patty Jenkins’ groundbreaking Wonder Woman (92%).

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