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Skills-based hiring is on the rise, job-hopping has become more accepted and the traditional career ladder is being replaced by a more flexible, nonlinear career path.

It was a movie that centered a woman’s nonlinear journey toward recovery, and this era of “Bridget Jones” sees Zellweger walking a similarly winding path toward whatever waits at the end of the road.

Walger struggled with “Lion” at first, until she landed upon the idea of using the continuous present tense as the “thread of beads” that holds together its nonlinear narrative.

“Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line,” says Patti Smith in this nonlinear scrapbook documentary.

“Nickel Boys” is Ross’ first foray into scripted fiction following his Oscar-nominated, nonlinear documentary “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” which observes moments of modern-day Black life in Alabama.