inexhaustibly

The talented cast and inexhaustibly inventive design team make it hard to bet against the future of theater.

“Close” begins in an idyll of childhood friendship, with two boys at play — running through fields of flowers, riding bicycles and inventing games, inexhaustibly happy in each other’s company.

That Tencent and TiMi Studio Group want to expand their reach with Honor of Kings in a climate that seems almost inexhaustibly hungry for new mobile games makes perfect sense.

But it also endures — gloriously, abundantly, inexhaustibly — as a wellspring of cinematic pleasure.

I don’t just mean that it’s loud, though it is; you may clutch your ears even before the audience, primed by streaming audio and TikTok, starts singing along to the nine inexhaustibly catchy songs.