Pre-screening films before they are reviewed on MovieWithMe.com means looking at hundreds of films on my flat screen TV. As many as I seem, I always get a rush of excitement when I spot one I’ve never heard of before. What goes through my mind is: how did I miss this? One explanation is that screen size really matters.

Here’s an example. Last week I saw “Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi.” This is an Israeli film about a boy’s coming of age in a crazy household ruled over by his grandfather. That is, the father of his father. His son has been kicked out by his own wife and now lives in the neighborhood. Shlomi’s older brother always puts him down, while his older sister complains that her husband looks at porno on the internet rather than her. The women are over weight, the men are oily, and everyone blames bad behavior on lineage from Moroccan Jews.

It is a wildly dysfunctional family in which Shlomi is considered slow, but is actually a genius no one has bothered to understand or acknowledge. Did it play in theaters? Did anyone see it? The answer is that no one would sit with a bag of popcorn on their lap and watch this in a movie theater. But at home, on a big screen TV, it is nothing short of wonderful. There’s a relaxed intimacy we allow ourselves in our own cocoon that let’s us concentrate in a very different way than in a movie theater. We see detail, we appreciate subtlety.

Don’t look for “Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi” on MovieWithMe.com yet. We’re still looking for a reviewer to recruit that can do it justice. But you can always check Netflix or Amazon if you’re in a rush.