Is it possible to have a classic movie in the age of streaming?
Hands-up - how many of you watched The Irishman on Netflix? And how many of you saw it through to the end?
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Every week there are new movies being released on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, and other streaming platforms. Expensive, multi-million dollar films. Some of them edging towards $100 million. But how many of them are capturing the attention of the culture? Do we even know they're being watched?
Charles Bramesco at Polygon takes a deep dive into t…