Brave New World ” was a runaway No. 1 at the global box office over the weekend. The movie, which cost at least $300 million to make and market worldwide, was on pace to sell roughly $100 million in tickets from Thursday through Monday in the United States and Canada,

Brave New World,” there was a feeling of unease in my stomach. It wasn’t that I wasn’t enjoying the film necessarily, but all too often I was reminded of the difficult political realities we face today.