But “Exit 8,” a new film by the Japanese director Genki Kawamura, is the first movie I can recall to land in a hallway, and stay there. The movie opens in first person, from the perspective of a guy on a crowded Tokyo subway. Like everyone else, he’s looking at his phone.

Mario, Luigi and friends have leveled up for an out-of-this-world sequel that expands on the Nintendo video game world. In The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, the titular plumber and his brother follow Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy) on an intergalactic adventure to save Princess Rosalina (Brie Larson),