Netflix 's relationship to movie theaters has been a frustration for people like me, who love them. Even as competitors learned that wide theatrical releases create a level of awareness that boosts movies when they come to streaming, rather than eat away at their potential viewership, Hollywood's biggest streamer has maintained that they have a different business model.

Except in very rare cases, the only way of seeing Netflix movies on the big screen is to live near one of the limited theaters they appear in during awards qualifying runs. I have sometimes been that lucky – seeing Martin Scorsese's The Irishman at the local one-screen cinema near my college (with a mostly elderly audience, who gasped when Jimmy Hoffa didn't want the teamsters' flag at half-mast after JFK's assassinati

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