Before “Everything Everywhere All At Once” came along, A24’s top grosser was the grim horror “Hereditary,” which topped off at $80 million worldwide, followed by “Lady Bird” ($78 million) and the Oscar-winning “Moonlight” ($65 million). And though it’s not bringing in the same numbers as the Wang family’s deeply relatable story of generational trauma, the independent film house also logged another hit this year with Dean Fleischer Camp’s “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On,” an incredibly wholesome children’s film starring Jenny Slate’s viral internet sensation that has brought in $4,101,245 to date, according to Box Office Mojo. Even before the releases of “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” “Funny Pages,” and “Pearl,” A24 is having one hell of a year.

And honestly, “Everything Everywhere All At Once” deserves this. Because of everyone paying their hard-earned money to multiply the movie’s $25 million production budget four times over at this point, Michelle Yeoh is finally getting the recognition that she has deserved as a leading lady for the longest time. Also, after taking a lengthy onscreen hiatus following break out roles in “The Goonies” and “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” that blazed a trail for Asian representation in American movies, Ke Huy Quan is proving that he still has a place in Hollywood after all these years. #Quanaissance. 

Audiences are opening up to the difficult themes about family buried under the weird, wild, and sometimes wacky elements of this top tier story. Even after all this success, hopefully the hype train keeps going for this memorable gem of a film for as long as possible and it gets equally recognized during awards season.