but there’s also a distinct pleasure in watching those movies whose running times sprawl beyond three hours — especially if you happen to, say, be quarantined at home for extended periods of time.
We live in a time of lengthy blockbusters: “The Batman” (176 minutes), “Oppenheimer” (180 minutes), “Avengers: Endgame” (182 minutes!), “The Irishman” (a whopping 209 minutes!), anything Peter Jackson ...