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This Year Was a Disaster. We Hope the Sequel Is Better. We streamed, we watched, we worried. We also wondered what the catastrophe called 2020 will mean for movies. People will want to go back to movie theaters when they can, our critics write, but some of the shifts brought about by the pandemic seem lasting.Credit...Carter Johnston for The New York Times Published Dec. 30, 2020Updated March 3, 2021 The end of December usually brings a flurry of big releases and a blizzard of Oscar speculation. But with the Academy Awards postponed and many theaters shuttered or half-empty, this movie year c...

"2020: The Worst Year Ever," reads the cover of Time magazine's December 14 issue. "There have been worse years in U.S. history," admits author Stephanie Zacharek, but not, to her way of thinking, since World War II. However, Zacharek opines, none but the oldest among us can remember a year nearly as bad. Just how bad a given year was is, of course, a matter of opinion, but Zacharek's opinion on 2020 strikes me as overwrought in a way that's becoming increasingly typical of whiny American poor-us-ism. Lately, it seems everything has to be described in a superlative manner. Natural disaster. ...