Saturday, December 25, 2021

Don't Look Up

 

In The Big Short and Vice, Adam McKay spiced up history with his trenchant humor but he's not constrained by anything in lampooning governmental fecklessness, social fragmentation and mass media froth in Don't Look Up's tale of a planet-killing comet drawing a bead on the Earth.

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