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My favorite movies of 2021

The year cinema came back, but audiences didn't

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Matthew Yglesias
Dec 29, 2021
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Like most people, I stopped going to see movies when Covid hit and stayed away even after theaters began to reopen.

But during the height of the pandemic, I was struck by how much I love movies and how much I missed them, not just because of lockdown but because I’d gone less and less since my kid was born. And beyond that, I realized that I miss movies…

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