Arthur Fleck Flickers Out
The first Joker was the final “movie event” before the pandemic, and likely the last time a movie will affect public policy and the culture as a whole. Barbie and Oppenheimer were nostalgic movie events, not so much an attempt to recapture and rekindle the regular moviegoing audience as a new once-a-year remembrance of how things were in “the before times,” that awful pandemic-era cliché that, nearly five years on, sounds even dumber than it did back then. Christopher Nolan and Greta Gerwig filled theaters across the world in July 2023... Читать дальше...
