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By Peter Rainer
Special correspondent
Do I miss seeing films in big theaters on a big screen with a big audience? You bet I do. But those days will return.
My initial concerns of a famished 2020 movie year were vastly exaggerated: After the pandemic began, a large backlog of small-scale, independent movies transitioned fairly smoothly to the home screen. The big studios had a rougher time of it: Many movies have been pushed well into next year.
Why We Wrote This
This year, movie watching moved largely from theaters to living rooms â where it may stay for some time. Monitor film critic Peter Rainer surveyed the landscape and offers his top choices for armchair watching.