A spry wit paces the elegant martial-arts showdowns in director and co-writer Destin Daniel Cretton’s Marvel Comics-derived adventure “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.”

By the time of its conclusion, “Candyman” has degenerated into a fantasy of racial revenge wholly at odds with Gospel values.

With the arrival of “PAW Patrol: The Movie” (Paramount), the titular rescue crew of pups bring their adventures to a multiplex near you. The result is a breezy, tenderhearted film suitable for all.

Director Martin Campbell’s sleek yet brutal thriller “The Protege” (Lionsgate) not only depicts the activities of its principal characters, all of them assassins, in unsparing bloody detail. It also presents its own alternate version of morality.

Part dystopian adventure, part neo-noir mystery, “Reminiscence” (Warner Bros.) is undone by its own sense of importance.

The challenges of being the only hearing member of a close-knit family are movingly explored in the drama “CODA” (Apple TV+), the title of which is an acronym for child of deaf adults. That phrase describes the situation of the film’s main character, 17-year-old Ruby Rossi (Emilia Jones).

An Arthurian legend comes to the big screen in writer-director David Lowery’s “The Green Knight” (A24). Lovely to look at but difficult to plumb, the film successfully immerses viewers in the atmosphere of the Middle Ages.

Matt Damon plays a man in search of redemption and renewal in the bleak yet touching drama “Stillwater”.

For most of its running time, the lighthearted adventure “Jungle Cruise” (Disney), adapted by director Jaume Collet-Serra from a Magic Kingdom theme park ride, registers as a diverting, if insubstantial, fantasy.

A day at the beach is no day at the beach in the thriller “Old” (Universal).