Real geriatric millennial media type energy.
Bravo “MAG,” glad your coastal friends had fun on set.
If any film were to confirm the notion that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, this was it.
McKay’s pure, unbridled plea for reformism. Entirely unoriginal. Leo as himself, the venture capitalist. Rylance the Bezos stand-in. Ariana Grande miming the Pete Davidson hysteria. JLaw making more money in the two seconds she spends yelling about the rich getting richer than most could imagine to make in their entire lives.
McKay could do…
A bleak, distressing, but entirely accurate depiction of the dual existential threat of ecological destruction and capitalistic impiety. Hawke offers an impassioned performance as Reverend Toller, and does a notable job just wearing Toller’s mounting suffering, whether it be through the creases on his face or his wraithlike movements from scene to scene. Schrader negotiates a good balancing act between hope, arriving in the form of love and steadfast religious commitment, and despair at the Earth’s accumulating destruction. A film…