For ‘The King of Staten Island,’ Going Straight to VOD Is No Laughing Matter (Column)
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variety.comBy Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Is watching a movie in a theater a different experience from watching it at home? There are two answers to that, and both of them are correct.
The answers are: 1) Yes, of course it is! and 2) It’s sort of different, but not really. It’s a different experience for all the reasons you know in your heart.
I won’t bother to list each of them (the grandeur of the big screen, the primal sensation of sharing a story, a moment, an emotion with a large audience).
But I will say that every time I’ve ever been asked this question, which I have for decades before the streaming wars existed, I have always led my “Yes, of course!” with the same quintessential example: that there is no movie on Earth you would
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