If I'd known this earlier, I could've gotten to more movies
NYer: "As a rough rule, cinema can be sundered into two halves: six o'clock films and nine o'clock films. Most movies are nine-o'clock affairs, and none the worse for it. You get home from work, grab something to eat, and head to the theatre, and enjoy the show. And so to bed — alone or entwined, but, either way, with dreams whose sweetness will not be crumbled or soured by what you saw onscreen. A six o'clock movie requires more organization: prebooked tickets, a restaurant table, the right friends. You're going to need them, because if all runs according to plan you will spend the second half of the evening tossing the movie — the impact and substance of it — back and forth."
A few lines later in the piece: "'The Reader' is a nine o'clock movie that thinks its a six o'clock. 'Groundhog Day' is the opposite."
