There’s No Life in Chloé Zhao’s Eternals

I usually don’t complain about long movie runtimes. I like it when filmmakers demand sustained attention, butts cramping up in seats—it’s refreshingly confident. Moviegoers, especially those of us who frequent the theater, are there to be hypnotized, trapped in a room and made to turn off our phones, and then re-emerge into the world at an entirely different time of day. But in order for that to happen, the movie has to be surprising, stirring, or flat-out-crazy; I haven’t forsaken fresh air and social media just to dutifully follow a plot. Eternals, Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao’s first major studio film,… Read Full Article