New seating, new eating, an entirely new type of screening–even the bathrooms underwent improvement during the recent AMC Esquire renovation.

 The theater shut down all summer for facility updates, but the time off seems to have been well worth it. The multi-million dollar update yielded new digital projectors, screens, and even new sound systems.

 Now, the Esquire is fully equipped with stadium seating, wide recliners and an upgraded concession area. And, quite honestly, considering the fact that it’s theater food, the pizza isn’t bad.

 As if all of that weren’t enough, a full service bar is in order as well. Although it’s not a dine-in theater, it sure looks like one to the unaware passerby–it’s hard to believe that a movie theater could get any more elegant than the new Esquire.

 And at what cost for movie-goers? Tickets are no more expensive than they were before. The rows are so spread out that chairs can be fully reclined and still leave enough space for viewers to walk in between the rows. There has got to be some sort of catch: it all seems too good to be true.

 The wider seating has, in fact, decreased the maximum capacity of the building by approximately 50 percent, but other than that, the new theater seems perfect.

 “We want to stress quality over quantity,” Ryan Noonan, an AMC spokesperson, said.

Quality they have stressed, and they’ve done a nice job of it, too.