Key Highlights
- 2 hours ago ‘The Housemaid’ Review: Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried in a Twisted Domestic Thriller That’s Over-the-Top and Clever About It 4 days ago ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Review: The Story Is Fine, the Action Awesome, as the Third ‘Avatar’ Film Does New Variations on a No-Longer-New Vision 4 days ago See All Netflix: Michael Buckner; Warner Bros: Mario Tama/ The first moment in my life when people began to talk about movies as if they could go away tomorrow was right after the pandemic struck.
- At that point, no one knew which end was up, but with America’s movie theaters having closed down, movies had gone away — at least temporarily.
- We all wondered: For how long?
- Theater chains were facing the kind of crippling debt that can hollow out an industry; they still are.
- And even after the theaters reopened, and moviegoers (or some of them, anyway) returned, the seemingly permanent erosion of the box office reflected a much larger story: the transition of audiences from the movie theater to the home theater, a technology-driven development that was also a cultural evolution.
