The movie industry is improving as a whole now. What we see is that companies such as Cinemas, Cineplex and IMAX are all benefitting from improvement in movie industry. Their shares up more than 1-2% yesterday but AMC is down 0.88% due to the fact that AMC is a retail owned company and NOT institutional owned company. Obviously AMC share price is being suppressed. The movie industry is improving and will continue to do so and AMC is in Avery good place. The stock price of AMC does not reflect the health of AMC during the recovery of the movie industry.
The trading was halted more than 30 times in a trading day this time. Most of the orders were routed to dark pools instead of the lit exchange. These prevented the stocks from repeating the highs in 2021. In short, this time it's manipulation.