Movies Are Getting Longer - And I’m Worried

Allison Wonchoba
4 min readDec 19, 2023
Killers of the Flower Moon (Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone) and Avatar: The Way of Water (Sam Worthington)
Pictured: Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese 2023 (DiCaprio, Gladstone) and Avatar: The Way of Water, James Cameron 2022 (Sam Worthington)

I went to the movie theater for the first time since the massive Barbenheimer event to see Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon.

Based on true events happening to the Osage people of Oklahoma in the 1920s, I was excited for a movie that had unearthed a buried story focusing on an underrepresented group in the media landscape. Plus, Scorsese was a great director to take this kind…

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Allison Wonchoba

Allison is a writer based out of Minneapolis. She lives with her two cats and is loving life.