As the Academy Awards approach, a look at moviegoing habits in the United States
About half of Americans (53%) said in a summer 2025 survey that they had seen a movie in theaters in the past year.
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About half of Americans (53%) said in a summer 2025 survey that they had seen a movie in theaters in the past year.
About half of Americans say they are bothered at least somewhat by the commercialization of Christmas.
That’s the percent of conservative Republicans who think that free trade agreements have, on the whole, been a bad thing for the United States — a view held by essentially the same percentage (32%) of liberal Democrats.