Quad Cinema

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"Quad Cinema exists with stunning success between the worlds of old-school movie theater and modern comfort extravaganza. The seats are upright but quite plush, many of them a bold red. The spaces are sleek, they're clean. The concessions stand is stocked and there's a full bar that serves orange wine. Most importantly, the programming is fabulously unpredictable—a blockbuster might be playing in one theater, the Spanish indie that introduced Penelope Cruz to the world thirty years ago in another, and a random collection of movies also not really playing anywhere else in the rest. It's just wonderful and reliable, always a consummate experience in the no man's land of Union Square."