[ad_1] In Radu Jude’s latest satire, the bracing “Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World,” the Romanian writer-director assaults the viewer with many of modern life’s indignities: gridlocked traffic, rampant misogyny, economic inequality, corporate exploitation, the far-right trolls on social media. But perhaps the most insidious offense is the ringtone that… Continue reading ‘Do Not Expect Too Much’ review: Darkly funny media satire
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“In the Know,” a Promising Satire of NPR That Never Quite Tunes In
[ad_1] “In the Know,” a new stop-motion comedy series on Peacock from Zach Woods, Brandon Gardner, and Mike Judge, begins with sounds familiar to any NPR listener: thoughtful hmm-ing, the performance of active listening. “Oh, that’s interesting,” a pasty, bare-chested man, Lauren Caspian (Woods), says to himself in a tiled bathroom. He has a wraithlike… Continue reading “In the Know,” a Promising Satire of NPR That Never Quite Tunes In
‘Landscape With Invisible Hand’ review: Uneven sci-fi satire
[ad_1] Had Greta Gerwig and David Lynch collaborated on “Independence Day,” the result might have been a lot like “Landscape With Invisible Hand,” a slyly subversive sci-fi satire that packs a sensory kick. Adapted by writer-director Cory Finley from the 2017 M.T. Anderson novel of the same name, the film takes the well-traveled alien invasion… Continue reading ‘Landscape With Invisible Hand’ review: Uneven sci-fi satire
‘The Pod Generation’ review: Comic sci-fi satire lacks edge
[ad_1] It’s easy to agree with the premise of Sophie Barthes’ gleaming, quasi-dystopian “The Pod Generation”: With every technological advance, we’re leeching what’s natural from our lives, and letting the simulations take over. But the movie’s core — a marital seriocomedy in which Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor start a family in a brave new… Continue reading ‘The Pod Generation’ review: Comic sci-fi satire lacks edge