It’s not that Steven Soderbergh’s new art house movie is expected to break any box office records when it opens Friday. A low-budget murder mystery set in a doll factory and made with non-actors, it’s hardly blockbuster material.

But because it’s the first feature by an Oscar-winning director (Traffic) to be released in theaters, on cable television and on DVD in a four-day span, Bubble is forcing everyone in town to wrestle with this question: Is the great American tradition of going out to the movies on its way out?” (LA Times)