This story contains major spoilers for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. When you watch movies professionally, you aren’t always privy to spontaneous bursts of audience enthusiasm. (This is a fair and just punishment for the privilege of watching movies professionally.) I didn’t see anyone in a state of pure rapturous glee over all those superheroes coming through the portals at climax of Avengers: Endgame and I didn’t see young people losing their minds and/or popcorn during the “chicken jockey” bit in A Minecraft Movie. I watched those films at press screenings, where the response of a crowd—even an enthusiastic one that’s sometimes been larded with influencers or recruited seat-fillers—is typically tempered by a sense of professional decorum. (Or depression.) So it was startling and delightful when a scene about three-quarters of the way through 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple was met with sustained applause at the Manhattan press screening. Checking my social feeds later, I learned this was not a one-off phenomenon. Across the country, sometimes-jaded critics were being moved to audible displays …