Entertainment Weekly - October 20, 2017

74 EW.COM OCTOBER 20/27, 2017

Edited By| JOE MCGOVERN @JMCGVRN

Movies

Bella Heathcote and Rebecca Hall

STARRING
Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall, Bella Heathcote, Connie Britton

DIRECTED BY

Angela Robinson

RATING
R

LENGTH

1 hr., 48 mins.

REVIEW BY

Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats

Professor Marston and

the Wonder Women

NO ONE KEEPS SECRETS BETTER THAN A SUPERHERO.

Double lives are written in the job description—holding

down the ordinary-citizen drag of secretary, cub reporter,

or wayward CEO until the call comes to slip into spandex

and save the world. Deception wasn’t a skill that Wonder

Woman creator William Moulton Marston ever really

mastered, though he earned a degree in psychiatry from

Harvard and shares credit for the invention of

the modern lie-detector test. (How’s that for

an origin myth?) And openness cost him a lot:

His pioneering muse became a lightning rod

for censure and scandal almost from the

moment she debuted in 1941, as did his own

deeply unconventional personal life, a three-

way love story played out decades before

polyamory became the stuff of daytime talk

shows and premium-cable dramas.

Even in today’s vastly more tolerant world,

that kind of romance à trois—like the unmiss-

able thread of bondage, kink, and sexual dom-

inance running through his scantily clad

heroine’s plotlines—remains defiantly out-

side the mainstream. Which may be why

director Angela Robinson (D.E.B.S.) puts

such a decorous sheen onProfessor Marston

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