In a development that will surprise absolutely no one who has ever been in a room with a teenager, college students enrolled in film classes are apparently unable to sit through the films. According to a report from The Atlantic's Rose Horowitch, one professor described his students as resembling nicotine addicts going through withdrawal, fidgeting and eventually surrendering to their phones during screenings. The irony is thick enough to project a movie onto.

Meanwhile, Hollywood seems to be trolling the attention-span crisis by releasing blockbusters that are longer than ever, many clocking in at three hours. Some of these manage to keep viewers engaged with bombastic action scenes designed for big screens and short attention spans. But the question lingers: how long is too long when your audience can't even commit to a single Tik Tok clip?

The newsletter explores the struggle to immerse oneself in longer works and offers alternatives for those who simply cannot handle sitting still for three hours. Among the recommendations: bring back the 90-minute film. Revolutionary.