Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story is such a flop that it’s inspiring many thoughtful pieces in a variety of publications. Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal cogitates upon this public rejection of what critics are calling a masterpiece, and decides that the reason for it is Americans’ embrace online streaming at home as the preferred way to see movies:

Mr. Spielberg plus great old American film should equal huge blockbuster. “West Side Story’s” unsuccessful release tells us that we have undergone a fundamental shift in how we watch movies in America.

Others mourn that it represents a more specific rejection of the film musical, after In the Heights, Dear Evan Hansen, and now West Side Story have bombed, making this “a catastrophic year for a genre that has been a mainstay of cinema since the advent of talkies.”