Bow-Tie Criterion Cinemas at Movieland
1301 North Boulevard,
Richmond,
VA
23230
1301 North Boulevard,
Richmond,
VA
23230
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Never re-opened after COVID and permanent closure announced on 5/9/23: https://www.wtvr.com/eat-it-virginia/criterion-cinemas-at-movieland-may-9-2023 . The main multiplex building at the same site remains open and operational.
This cinema closed at the start of the pandemic (March 2020) and I believe has remained closed since, long after the main Movieland complex reopened. It has also been removed from Bow Tie’s list of locations. They’ve continued to book the more esoteric art house films that previously played here at the main complex. At a minimum its status should be temporarily closed, if not permanently.
A unique “feature” at this building that I have never seen at another theater - due to the decision to split such a small building into 4 auditoriums, no space could be spared for the hallway that usually employs both distance and angling to separates a theater’s lobby entrance from the auditorium doors. You can actually open the door from the inside of the auditorium and look straight out the glass front doors of the building, complete with sunlight during the day or the parking lot lights/car headlights at night shining directly onto the screen! To mitigate this, each auditorium has a blackout curtain in front of the door that has to be pushed aside as you enter and exit.
The two auditoriums whose walls comprise the external side walls of the building also have WINDOWS, another thing I have never seen in a movie theater. These are also blacked out.