Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

Enjoyable but shallow, this uses some of the style of "Suicide Squad" in a far more coherent manner. While it's got the standard shopping bag of requirements most superhero movies seem to have (further adventures of one antihero, introducing three more new heroes, a sidekick and two villains), this pulls it off reasonably well. While a lot of the early-movie adventures do slightly lack an individual style (only the nightclub scenes really get a decent set, and everything else feels a little like it's on a generic street scene backlot), the last act finds an enjoyable way to stage action scenes (with fights that actually feel weighty and violent, rather than the usual airless scrapping and posing). Robbie's very much at the centre and manages to keep Harley on the right side of manic pixie psychotic, with Rosie Perez getting most of the serious plotting, Ewan McGregor getting to be a sleazy bad guy and Mary Elizabeth Winstead largely being enigmatic for most of the movie before being hilariously straightfaced to the rest of the nutso shenanigans. This isn't top flight stuff, and it probably is going to suffer from being a little too violent for family audiences, but for those of you who want a female led action movie, this does pretty darn well.