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Wicker is this year’s most unexpected delight. A remarkably assured second feature from husband-and-wife writer-director team Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, Wicker tells the story of a lonely, misanthropic fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who asks a master wicker craftsman (Peter Dinklage) to make her a husband. He complies, and imbues the resulting wicker golem (Alexander Skarsgård) with a soul. This odd marriage awakens the fisherwoman’s heart and loins, and, in its inversion of traditional medieval gender roles, causes chaos in her village. Wicker is presented as a fable. Every character is named after their job, and though it has way more sexcapades than your typical Brothers Grimm story, its ending still feels ripped straight from their pages.…