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Thor: Love and Thunder

Taika Waititi's second Thor film attempts to replicate Ragnarok's tonal success while telling a more emotionally complicated story — terminal illness, faith, and the silence of gods — and the tonal negotiation doesn't always hold. Christian Bale's Gorr the God Butcher is the franchise's most visually menacing villain in Phase 4, and the black-and-white Eternity sequence is among the most striking images Waititi has produced. The return of Jane Foster as Mighty Thor is the film's most important narrative move, though the abbreviated execution of her arc leaves the emotional payoff feeling compressed.