Why This Year’s Oscar Contenders Deserve to Be Seen in Theatres

Somewhere around the rise of “Netflix and chill,” movie theatres started to lose their chill. The fear was that films like The Irishman and Marriage Story, which many people are watching for the first time from the comfort of their own couches, signalled the death of the traditional cinema. Cineplex even banned Netflix productions from screening in its theatres during the last edition of TIFF. Then again, perhaps “Netflix and chill” was never actually born from a