“M3GAN 2.0” should be much more fun than it is. On paper, the details powering its premise probably sounded like a real riot.

Stop yourself before you’re tempted to watch “The Ritual,” an interminably stiff and entirely derivative bore.

The 2022 film offers a fuller, more fear-filled and eerily lingering experience than this made-for-the-masses 2024 incarnation ever does.

Little snickers are few and far between, so there’s never an overwhelming sense that the movie is aware of how cliched everything is.