Netflix claims it isn't actually cropping those movies it's been running all cropped
The history of aspect ratios is a long and convoluted story that has an unsatisfying ending: directors have used countless different film formats throughout cinema, making it difficult to show every film in the proper aspect. For television broadcasting, the geometric mean of 16:9 was created as a way to accommodate the two most common ratios of 1.33 and 2.35. But nothing pisses off filmmakers and cinephiles like pan-and-scan film cropping. The Tumblr What Netflix Does has collected 11 different instances of cropped films over the past few months, some particularly egregious examples of which are below from Man On The Moon and Last Action Hero.
