Then again, the great collective shrug given to the release of a new The Matrix movie suggests that even that has its limits.Īgainst all the odds, however, 2021 managed to be a strong, even superlative year for movies. It also raised the curtain on a dread new phenomenon: early-onset millennial nostalgia as a box office value. The colossal success of the latest entry in the Disney-Marvel junket, Spider-Man: No Way Home, in the last days of this year gave the whole idea of mass movie-going a shot in the arm, but it was a singular hit that seemed to come at the expense of a slate of far more ambitious and interesting movies by great filmmakers, in a time when just about everything pitched at anyone over the mental age of nine flopped hard. ![]() Year Two of the COVID-19 pandemic continued to wreak havoc on cinema’s traditional tenets, but things are clearly still in flux. ![]() These past couple of years surviving has started to feel like more of an achievement than it used to be, and that’s as true for the movies as any of us. ![]() My late father used to ritually quip on every New Year’s Eve: “Well, we survived another one.” Actually, I’ve cleaned that up somewhat, but you get the idea.
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