Not to jinx it, but it's been a pretty good year at the movies so far.
Audiences are feeling more comfortable returning to theaters, two years after the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on Hollywood and studio scheduling.
And it's not just superheroes and blockbuster films that movie fans are embracing. The multiverse madness of "Everything Everywhere All at Once," which hit the Top 5 at the box office earlier this month, is showing the drawing power of original filmmaking, movies that aren't based on comic books or old sitcoms or dusty toys that have been sitting in someone's basement since the Reagan administration, but rather fresh ideas born out of the human imagination. What a concept!
