Feel free to brand me a cultural philistine if you wish, but the minute I saw the run-time for Martin Scorsese’s new film Killers of the Flower Moon I emitted a weary groan. Clocking in at a mighty 3 hours and 26 minutes, I could very easily hit play, set off from London up the motorway to Sheffield, and arrive there bang on the end credits.
Scorsese has long been a fan of hefty timestamps â The Irishman was even longer, by three extra minutes â but he’s far from the only one at it. If you unravel the film spool for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, released earlier this year, it would reach from Trafalgar Square to Croydon IKEA with another half a mile to spare. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning - Part 1 featured Tom Cruise performing all manner of ridiculous and death-defying back-flips for just shy of three hours, and that’s somehow only the first instalment of the saga.
