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Robert Hutton on Cinema

IF I HAD THE SKILLS TO HACK THE computers of the Apple Corporation, I wouldn’t go hunting for the specs of the new iPhone. What I want to know, more than anything, is at what point people at home stop watching Killers of the Flower Moon.

Martin Scorsese’s vastly overpraised drama is now streaming on Apple TV, which funded the film. But at three and a half hours long, what percentage of the audience is getting through it in one shift?

How many people are deciding that it’s late in the evening,

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