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‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ review: Gods, goats, Hemsworth and Portman, as Marvel tests the limits of camp

Natalie Portman, left, and Chris Hemsworth in Marvel Studios' "Thor: Love and Thunder."

Twenty-nine films into the Marvel Cinematic Universe — a playful and flexible narrative arena in theory, too often a realm of granite solemnity in practice — if you can’t mess around a little then really: Why make all that money in the first place?

In other words, the giant screaming goats hit the spot in “Thor: Love and Thunder,” which should be called “Thor: Love, Thunder,

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