Would titans like Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, and Wes Anderson make good on the breathless chatter that surrounded their latest projects and predictably inspire some of the most illuminating and demented takes in the history of human opinion along the way? Absolutely. Would audiences - so eager for a different breed of “event film” that they had already started to redefine the term themselves - actually follow through on the “Barbenheimer” meme that first spread across social media in late 2022? Yes. Would the studios - some of which had fatally diluted their brands with streaming options in a desperate bid to appease the stock market - find that once-reliable franchises had lust their luster? Yes. Some of the most pressing questions we had at the start of January were answered with resounding force. In hindsight, it shouldn’t be surprising that the cinema of 2023 was so preoccupied with the unknown, as the first proper year after the start of the pandemic was always going to find the movie industry plunging into a brave new world.
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