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Crucial Context: Christopher Nolan Films Are Getting Longer

As one of the nation's foremost explanatory journalists—someone who really likes #charts and #graphs—I feel like it's my duty to put into context the latest news about Christopher Nolan's Interstellar. Here you go:

Graph by Alan Zilberman, via Twitter

As you can see, I've* put this #data in #chart form in order to explain just what's going on with Christopher Nolan's movies. And, as you can see, they're getting longer. Indeed, Interstellar, at 169 minutes, is his longest film yet. The trend is unmistakable.

You should just be happy that you have wonks like me to #explain this #CrucialContext for you. The future of journalism, ladies and gentlemen, is charts. Well, charts and writing about tweets from random people who think that Iggy Azalea and Macklemore are good.

*Actually, Alan.