Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Movie theaters are suffering from an identity crisis right now. The rise of streaming services has made it easier than ever to ...

Movies are really long these days. Avatar: The Way of Water was almost as long as Titanic. Oppenheimer was only slightly shorter, as was Avengers: Endgame. All three gobbled up money like it was going ...

“Killers of the Flower Moon” is not short, nor should it be. At 3 hours, 26 minutes, it casts a spell, dark and mournful but alive. It may look like a certain kind of movie epic, especially as the ...

The 15-minute intermission acknowledges contemporary reality as much as bathroom needs. “The Brutalist” becomes 215 minutes start to finish with its precisely timed 15-minute break. Without it, it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hollywood is waging war on our excretory systems — and it’s winning. We live in a time of lengthy blockbusters: “The Batman” (176 ...

In 2005, Dan Gardner watched Peter Jackson’s King Kong (runtime: 201 min) in theaters and had a major problem: he had to pee, but didn’t want to miss any crucial moments from the giant ape. That ...

Hollywood movies face an unexpected plot twist in Indian theaters: a forced intermission. Here's why no director can ever escape it. When Martin Scorsese makes a request, you simply oblige. He wanted ...

In the last few years, moviegoing has become a larger-than-life experience, and a part of that theater experience has felt like films seem to have increasingly grown longer and longer . . . Meanwhile, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Movie theaters are suffering from an identity crisis right now. The rise of streaming services has made ...

Hollywood is waging war on our excretory systems — and it’s winning. We live in a time of lengthy blockbusters: “The Batman” (176 minutes), “Oppenheimer” (180 minutes), “Avengers: Endgame” (182 ...