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What a strange and intriguing week this has turned out to be, with not one but two superhero origin stories, of sorts, hitting the screen simultaneously: “Marshall,” with its portrait of the Supreme Court jurist Thurgood Marshall as an ambitious young lawyer, and “Professor Marston & the Wonder Women,” a biopic by Angela Robinson about the creation of the feminist comic-book icon Wonder Woman. The timing of Ms. Robinson’s film could hardly be improved on, given that “Wonder Woman”—the big-screen spectacular—was the best entertainment of the past summer. The film’s style is another matter; it’s didactic, somewhat…