Don’t Look Up

Matt Roush says...

Subtlety is not a virtue of Adam McKay’s devastating and often uproariously funny satire about the impending end of the world as we know it. This could be the most hilarious pre-apocalyptic comedy since Dr. Strangelove, and like Kubrick’s classic, this takes no prisoners as it depicts a world unwilling to focus on an impending “extinction event” involving a comet hurtling toward Earth. Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence are the astronomy scholars trying to warn their fellow humans, but is anyone listening? Not the vapid president (Meryl Streep hamming it up), not the unctuous news anchors (a sultry Cate Blanchett and jovial Tyler Perry). Any similarities to the global response to climate change are absolutely intentional.

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