★★

There’s a parallel universe out there in which audiences didn’t sleep on Paul Feig’s gender-switched Ghostbusters reboot. Misogyny does not exist on this spectral plane. Inevitably, the female ‘busters would have united with the original gang by now, in some nostalgia porn sequel, but 2021’s Afterlife would never have happened. To think what might have been. Instead, here is Frozen Empire, a fair but largely phoned-in fifth entry in a franchise struggling to proving itself more than the sum of its theme tune. Apologies, fourth entry. In this universe, the powers that be remain keen to pretend 2016 never happened (aren’t we all?). A return to New York here puts the nail in Feig’s coffin.