Adam McKay

Film Review: “Don’t Look Up” — A Pitch-Dark Satire that Dares to be Impudently Pessimistic

January 4, 2022
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The knee-jerk, hateful reviews of Don’t Look Up possess comments so outsized, and so beside the point, that they bear a resemblance to the oblivious thinking of the movie’s anti-science ostriches.

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Movie Review: “The Big Short” — Capitalism Gone Wild, Made Entertaining

December 25, 2015
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The Big Short is a deftly sardonic piece of doomsday economic diagnosis that is as entertaining as it is alarming.

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