The month of July proved why streamers have already replaced theaters for me

• Netflix's The Old Guard is at the top of the list for July regarding the most-watched movies for the month across the major streaming services.
• The list comes from data courtesy of the streaming search engine service Reelgood.
• Most every major streamer is represented on the list below, including Hulu, Disney+ and Apple TV+

When Italian actor Luca Marinelli learned he'd gotten the part of "Nicky" in the new Netflix original movie The Old Guard, he explained to me in the days before the Charlize Theron-led superhero drama debuted on the streamer, he ran straight to a nearby shop in London and bought the comic book the movie is based on. His character in the film is an immortal mercenary who fights with the superhero group led by Theron's "Andy." One of the things I took away from our brief conversation about his part and about the movie itself is how Marinelli threw the question back at me when I asked what he thinks about the kind of crotchety, get-off-my-lawn-tinge to criticism from Hollywood stalwarts like Martin Scorsese who think superhero movies aren't "real" movies. That they don't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as classics like, say, The Godfather. "Well, why not?" Marinelli asked me. Why can't they be? They can tell just as much of a compelling story, he went on -- and that, in fact, is what attracted him to this role. "I fell in love with the characters and the story," with the latter including Nicky's backstory of being old enough to have fought in the Crusades, where he met and killed his great love "Joe."

Speaking of a compelling story, audiences have been quite compelled, indeed, to watch and enjoy The Old Guard since its release -- on Rotten Tomatoes, for example, the movie has earned a very respectable 81% score compiled from 236 critics' reviews, and it also currently has a 71% audience score derived from more than 2,600 ratings by members of the public. The Old Guard, by another reckoning, also earned another distinction upon its release, topping one list of the most-watched movies for the month of July.

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