The cinema experience

A draft viewing guide: follow the light, notice the edges, and ask what the camera leaves outside the frame.

A thunderous, sand-swept spectacle that earns its enormous screen. Villeneuve lets scale do the talking, then undercuts the triumph with a colder question about power. The sound is physical, the images are severe, and the final act lingers.

Edgar Wright turns a dream of London into a beautiful nightmare. The needle drops and mirrored choreography are irresistible. Its final stretch explains a little too much, but the haunted glamour of the first hour stays with you.