Things you buy through our links may earn Vox Media a commission. Here are the best movies Bilge Ebiri and Alison Willmore saw in Popcorn buckets. They gave us fancy popcorn buckets. Dune: Part Two sandworm popcorn buckets. Gladiator II helmet popcorn buckets. Nosferatu miniature-coffin popcorn buckets. Meanwhile, we had to contend with armies of overgrown children photographing and sometimes recording the screen on their phones. Apparently, pickleball and zip lines are next on the menu? But then things changed, and a lot of people actually did go to cinemas this year.
And perhaps the most surprising thing about film in is the fact that I was personally okay with all the many annoyances of the theatrical experience. Being in crowds with people means learning to accept our differences. Anyway, go see Nickel Boys. Okay, Twisters was a huge domestic hit β can we finally call him a movie star? They just held a Glen Powell look-alike contest in Austin. Does that count? Some of the greatest works of art have been produced about the consoling power of other works of art.
Note the title. Art thus becomes not just a form of consolation, but a conjuring, a communion with the infinite. Much of the discussion around No Other Land has understandably centered around its inability to find distribution. Somehow β somehow! More effectively than any other film about this subject, No Other Land lays bare the methods by which a community is extinguished β not through one mass expulsion which would attract undue international attention but by a yearslong drip-drip-drip of bulldozed homes, destroyed wells, and late-night arrests.
In the age of movies being split into multiple parts , Horizon is the one that perhaps suffers the most. Witness all the critics bewildered by the fact that its opening chapter feels like β¦ an opening chapter. Chapter two largely focuses on the female characters of this saga, who felt like they were in danger of being sidelined in chapter one. Meanwhile, people we had pegged as heroes act like careless, unfeeling monsters, and the obvious villains show surprising moments of humanity.
What makes it so alive is the delicacy and honesty with which each character has been drawn and performed. It could have easily become yet another movie about victims and villains, or about overbearing parents and rebellious kids. Instead, it has the aura of truth, which makes it riveting. The movie is set in an imaginary Winnipeg that is steeped in Persian culture and where everyone speaks Farsi.
