The header image is from Ne Zha 2 , which came out a few weeks ago and is now the highest grossing non-English language movie ever. (It's the seventh highest period.) The movie is not bad. It's certainly better than the first Ne Zha . I don't have that much to say about it, and you've definitely seen similar movies before. But it's worth seeing. What I find interesting about it is how similar it is to the other movies that made $2 billion. Its scale and spectacle put it in the same camp as the Avatar movies. What I wonder now, though, is if in ten years the list of highest-grossing movies will be dominated by movies like Ne Zha 2 , mass market movies made for an audience of over a billion people. I'd like to see if it's the audience or the formula that made the difference. A Touch of Sin (2013) This film gave me a new appreciation for filmmakers who make similar films over and over again. Jia Zhangke isn...
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