A good opening scene is a necessity if you want the rest of the movie to be good, for obvious reasons. You could technically win someone over after a messy opening, but it would be hard, and the only ...

Most films made for streamers rush to grab the audience before they can keep scrolling. They’ll start in medias res or offer up so much bombast that you can’t look away. But before streaming, ...

Citizen Kane, Pulp Fiction, and Hundreds of Beavers are genuine masterpieces that work perfectly from their opening scenes.