A big chunk of our collective attention - we don’t yet know how big, or with what consequences - is migrating to streaming platforms whose offerings include a lot of the stand-alone single-episode narratives that we used to see mainly in theaters. The art form is in one of its periodic identity crises. Not only for making “The Irishman,” his best movie in a long time and one of the best of 2019 (see below), but also for reminding the world of the value of cinema. Scott’s List | Manohla Dargis’s ListĪs the movie year winds down, I would like to express my gratitude to Martin Scorsese.