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Henry Cavill, who plays Superman in Zack Snyder’s Justice League, at San Diego Comic-Con in 2015. Panel photograph, not a film still. Photo: Gage Skidmore , CC BY-SA 3.0 . Display size adjusted; source photograph unchanged. Zack Snyder’s Justice League is an opportunity to ask what happens when a familiar film is given a different structure. More running time can provide room for motivation, hesitation and an emotional consequence. It can also make a story harder to sustain. The useful question is what the additional space does for the characters, rather than whether longer automatically means better. This is the version released in 2021, rather than a film still awaiting production. DC’s contemporary team history identifies its HBO Max debut as 18 March 2021. The BBFC’s record lists a 242-minute 2021 edition separately from the shorter theatrical film. A team needs reasons to become a team Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince bring together people whose abilities do not remove their ind...

Diane Lane, who plays Connie Sumner in Unfaithful, at the True Grit premiere during the 2011 Berlin Film Festival. This is an event photograph, not a film still. Photo: Siebbi , CC BY 3.0 . Cropped version supplied by Wikimedia Commons; display size adjusted. Spoiler note: This review discusses the central affair and its consequences. Richard Gere, Edward Sumner in Unfaithful, photographed at The Dinner premiere during the 2017 Berlinale. Event portrait, not a film still. Photo: Maximilian Bühn , CC BY-SA 4.0 . Cropped from the premiere group photograph; display size adjusted. Unfaithful works best when it makes an ordinary moment feel irreversible. A meeting becomes an attraction; an attraction becomes a secret; that secret changes how every familiar room and conversation feels. The tension comes from watching choices accumulate, rather than from waiting for an elaborate plot twist. Directed by Adrian Lyne and released in 2002, the film follows Connie and Edward Sumner, played by...