Quentin Tarantino knows more about movies than just about anyone else alive. The Pulp Fiction director said cinema ended a few years ago. He made some salient points, even if they were not literally true.

Tarantino said during the Sundance Film Festival (via Variety) that the definition of films has changed since the pandemic. The “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” director deemed theatrical releases as a “show-pony exercise” before streaming.

The crux of the change for Tarantino is that the experience of theater is still unsullied, whereas with movies, people are on their phones and the theatrical window is teeny tiny. “Theater you can’t do that,