Some data analyses.
Are movies getting longer?
This is a question I’ve heard in the past couple years from friends and foes alike, usually right after they learn the runtime of a particularly long new movie. I never cared for that question. Why would I, when there will always be so many great shorter films out there I have yet to watch? Over time, however, I got sick of hearing people who had never bothered to look for short gems like Shiva Baby (78 minutes) complain that movies were getting longer....