Features, OpinionI Don’t Want To Go Back To the Movies YetPosted on September 18, 2020 On the set of Gremlins, directed by Joe Dante. (Photo by Warner Bros. Pictures/Amblin E/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images) There’s been a lot of handwringing in the news about moviegoers’ failure to return to cinemas when they rolled out Tenet and Mulan earlier this month. As a critic, I should probably be arguing for you to take a chance on the movies again, seeing as some of my income depends on it. But you know what? I’m not sure that it truly does anymore, and, frankly, I don’t want to go back to the movies yet, and I don’t think you should, either.