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The vastly wealthy Richard Croft (Dominic West) tells his journal (and us) that he must take leave of his beloved daughter - his “Sprout” - to keep a nefarious agency from finding and weaponizing a demonic queen entombed in a mountain on an island off the coast of Japan. It’s lickety-split, straight-ahead, with no dumb subplots. To the movie: Tomb Raider does everything right that last year’s The Mummy did so garishly, painfully wrong. Then she made the same speech about how she’s always loved Lara Croft that I’d already heard on talk shows, but not from ten feet away, where it’s even more charming. Then an announcer yammered something about the lighting being wrong and called for Alicia Vikander to help out - and so, in bounded Vikander, who amid the YAAAAHHHHHHHs hugged each Lara Croft in turn and posed for a group photo. A bunch of women did, affecting the requisite tough stances. I’ll admit that the screening started off on a feel-good promotional note: Attendees were invited to dress up as Lara Croft and pose in front of the movie’s poster. Are You Smart Enough to Solve the Only Puzzle in Tomb Raider?