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"Ask Peter 05/01/26"

What is your take on the recent New York Times' article about why movies in theaters look so bad these days? The idea being that filmmakers are mistaking soft, underlit, washed-out, murky movies as the definition of cinematic.

By Peter Travers

May 1, 2026

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I couldn’t agree more. My wife and two friends recently lined up to see “Michael” on the big screen. We left with the impression that someone had dragged the film through mud.