It had been over 14 months since I had set foot inside a theater. Attending this screener for
A Quiet Place Part II wasn’t only something I was excited for because I loved the first film (or even because I was excited to see my fellow critic friends), but because I was freaking ecstatic to watch a movie on the big screen again.
The joy of cinema, the smell of popcorn, and the act of getting completely lost in a story – well, it’s something that we’ve lost in the last year. While we’ve binged countless series on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, HBO Max – and 3,000 other streaming platforms – none of that hold a candle to the magic of being in a theater.