Adam Graham

The Detroit News (TNS)

At the movies this year, it was one battle after another.

It was either fears of AI or worries that audiences aren’t going to the theater anymore, or franchise fatigue and concerns about consolidation of the business and what it means for the future of the industry.

It was also “One Battle After Another,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s triumph of old-school moviemaking, which showed what’s possible when a top director is given the tools he needs and the backing of a major studio to see his vision through. “One Battle” is Hollywood at its best, at a time when the sky seems to be falling on that very business model.

Which is to say it was an up-and-down year at the movies, understandable given all the turmoil in Tinseltown. Some movies and filmmakers were able

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