Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticThis is not exactly the ideal moment to be making a case for the power of movie theaters. They’re up against the ropes, hanging on by their fingernails — or, at best, fighting a stark uphill battle.
Yet neither is it the moment for theaters to be throwing in the towel, or for the rest of us to be saying, “Wake up and smell the streaming!
The age of theaters is over. No one wants them anymore. If they go out of business, it will just be putting an archaic entertainment form out of its misery.”A lot of people — too many — now have a chip on their shoulder about movie theaters.
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