The rise of video on demand will make it possible for small movies to earn back costs via … - David Edelstein

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The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

David Edelstein

The rise of video on demand will make it possible for small movies to earn back costs via $9. 95 24-hour rentals and for people in cities without independent cinemas to see the kind of movies they never have before. That's great - but on the other hand, that's TV.

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Well, the movie isn't bad. For a while, I even told myself I liked it, even as it missed one mark after another. But in the end, it's shapeless and blandly apolitical, apart from its watered-down feminism. You see, Fey's Kim Baker - changed from Barker - transforms herself from a neophyte reporter, condescended to by male war correspondents, soldiers and Afghan officials, into a hard-charging political animal who speaks the language fluently and parties as hard as men. That's about as edgy as a sitcom.

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Still, you can't complain about the number of movies being made. Never have the means of making movies been so accessible to so many. The problem is getting bodies into seats.

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Every year, I'm depressed that so few of the documentaries I've loved break through.

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Along with my peers, I gripe about the increasing number of superhero films, and I'm sad that so many critics so uncritically use words like franchise, which should be reserved for your local Burger King.

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The economic and technological changes are real, but I just can't bring myself to wax apocalyptic about the future of books.

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