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CANNES, France – Chris Hemsworth has so many scene-chewing moments as an absolute psychopath in “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” they could fill the tank of a massive war rig screaming across the desert. He has perhaps created one of the all-time-great screen villains in his bike-gang leader Warlord Dementus, who has kidnapped a young Furiosa (Alyla Browne) and claimed her as his daughter. It’s also a problem of perhaps too much of a good thing.

Like Ryan Gosling’s Ken in “Barbie,” Hemsworth’s Dementus may have the best part – and by far the most dialogue and funniest lines – in a movie named after its main female character. The film’s trailer highlights Anya Taylor-Joy taking over the role of the Wasteland’s toughest woman, which Charlize Theron played so fiercely in “Fury Road.” Taylor-Joy’s young adult Furiosa is a determined survivor, with a balletic physicality that allows her to escape many scrapes with death, including an incredible extended sequence fighting off attackers while hanging from the undercarriage of a moving war rig.



But because Browne plays Furiosa as a child, Taylor-Joy doesn’t show up until halfway through the movie, as someone who has gone mute and is pretending to be a boy as a survival mechanism. Most of her screen time, including a possible love connection with war-rig driver Praetorian Jack (Tom Burke, the smoldering, louche lead of “The Souvenir”), is spent in silence while delivering piercing stares. “I mean, you c.

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