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EDITOR’S LETTER

SO LONG, 2010S—WE HARDLY knew you. I’m only half-kidding: one noticeable fact about the past 10 years is that they haven’t taken a precise shape in the minds of many moviegoers. They don’t seem to conjure the same ready-made (and admittedly reductive) conceptions as the 1970s, or the 1940s, or the 1990s for that matter.

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