By
Margaret Hartmann,
senior editor for Intelligencer who has worked at New York since 2012
Movies are so back. 2026 has been Hollywood’s best year at the box office since the pandemic. And it’s all thanks to the Trumps!
No, not because Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster The Odyssey is a three-hour critique of how Donald Trump’s xenophobia is plunging us into a dark age of conflict and illiteracy. During a speech in Nevada on Wednesday night, the president bragged that First Lady Melania Trump actually had the top film of the year.
