Here (2024) review

Centuries go by showing the changes made to a small plot of land, starting with the dinosaurs stomping around to the time of Native Americans, then Colonial America, and all the way to the 20th century (and beyond), focusing mostly on war vet Al (Paul Bettany) and his wife Rose (Kelly Reilly) purchasing the property and then having a son, Richard (Tom Hanks), who grows up and marries Margaret (Robin Wright).  For a "mainstream" Hollywood release you could say it's somewhat ambitious by having the conviction to depict the proceedings from a single angle and revealing, using little boxes, how the landscape has transformed - screenwriters Eric Roth and Zemeckis adapted it from the graphic novel by Richard McGuire - except more often than not the transitions seem almost randomized (when not painfully direct) and the movie is shameless in its pursuit of audience sympathy, with multiple deaths taking place at that exact location (including a Native American burial) and sending it out on a "high note" (ahem) with Margaret suffering from a neurological disease.  The key issue with it is the largely defeatist tone - Richard's aspirations to attend art school are thwarted, Margaret's dream of a new house never comes to be, a young black man is warned about the police, a housekeeper dies of COVID-19 - which is what makes the sections involving Relax-Z-Boy inventor Leo (David Fynn) and his lover so briefly invigorating: they're actually trying to amuse themselves.