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The last decade has seen a seismic shift. Streaming platforms (Chorki, Hoichoi, Binge) and YouTube have provided independent filmmakers with distribution channels once controlled by the grade cinema oligopoly. Films like Networker Baire (2021) and Biroti (2021) have found urban, middle-class audiences hungry for nuance. Film criticism, too, has decentralized. Blogs, Twitter threads, and YouTube essayists (e.g., Channel Cine, Rafat Hossain’s deep dives) are beginning to apply more sophisticated frameworks—drawing on feminist film theory, postcolonial critique, and genre analysis. has decentralized. Blogs