Everything, Everywhere, All at Once (2022), directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

Evelyn is a frazzled Chinese-American woman, running a laundromat business, who is also dealing with an impending divorce, daddy issues, a difficult relationship with her daughter and an audit by the tax department. To add to her burdens she is contacted by an alternate version of her husband from a parallel universe for help combatting a threat to the multiverse. She must access the skills and experience of all her alternate selves to save the day, her marriage, her daughter and her business. This colourful action-packed film is completely bananas and thoroughly entertaining. It makes the most of the incomparable Michelle Yeoh, who is ably supported by Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis. It must have been great fun for the actors, who get to play multiple versions of their characters. The extreme violence is executed in comic-book fashion and is mitigated by its absurdist elements and the ultimate message of love and kindness conquering all. At times, especially early on, it is hard to know what an earth is going on in this film, but it really is all there in the title.