What does it mean, to go to the movies? Why have people been going for over one hundred years? I set out to celebrate movie theaters and their manifold magic. So I walked in the footsteps of young Paul Dédalus, as if in a filmgoer’s coming-of-age story. Memories, fiction, discoveries come together in an irrepressible torrent of pictures.

The Surfer
2025
5.8/10

The Quiet Son
2025
6.5/10

The Long Gray Line
1955
7.0/10

Cinderella's Curse
2024
5.9/10

Oppenheimer
2023
8.0/10

Barbie
2023
6.9/10

Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021
8.1/10

Top Gun: Maverick
2022
8.2/10

Ex Machina
2015
7.6/10

Everything Everywhere All at Once
2022
7.7/10

1917
2019
8.0/10

All Quiet on the Western Front
2022
7.7/10

Dune: Part Two
2024
8.1/10

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
2020
6.9/10

Soul
2020
8.1/10

Blue Beetle
2023
6.7/10

PK
2014
7.7/10

The Equalizer 3
2023
7.3/10

Deadpool & Wolverine
2024
7.6/10

Tenet
2020
7.2/10