This might sound strange, but people still clap for Nicole Kidman at the movies. Not necessarily at her movies, because there haven’t been so many of those in recent years. But she’s still the face of AMC Theaters; nearly five years after the debut of her iconic pre-show spot sincerely worshiping at the altar of cinema (“we come to this place… for magic”), various recuts of that footage are still among the last things audiences see before their feature presentations (finally) begin, and at least in Manhattan, certain crowds of certain dispositions continue to dutifully applaud when she appears. (At the city’s one true IMAX on the Upper West Side, the reaction still feels like 2021, or at least early 2022.) I can only picture the rapture that must have greeted Kidman’s appearance in front of screenings of Babygirl, the A24 hit where she played a powerful executive finding unexpected
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