Film fests getting canceled is disappointing but it is a litmus test for magazines, journalists & esp. audiences. Almost a boon. For once, you don't have to rely on institutional tastemakers & cultural gatekeepers. Make use of this non-curated wilderness. No FOMO, no cool clubs.

Go scourge youtube, vimeo, ubuweb, http://archive.org . Look for non-canonized artists and art. Look into repertories. Do torrents. Make an effort to go beyond ever-shrinking OTT walls.

It would be super-cynical for publications and critics to behave as if there were no alternatives to OTTs for their readers.

You can do better than to remember a film in its Nth anniversary when said film hasn't gotten out of our faces all this time anyway.

The markets and festivals will certainly come back to monopolize our attention anyway. These doldrums offer a chance to imagine things differently.

As silicon valley types like to say, the film critical discourse space is primed for disruption.

Jonathan Rosenbaum has been writing for years about the programmed aversion to foreign films in the US (or anything outside the purview of the LA oligarchy). I think the situation isn't wholly dissimilar now.

One of the worst things that might result from this piggybacking of film criticism on OTT content is the impression that anything outside of it is intellectually forbidding, unworthy of attention and not entertaining.