Succession The designer Jesse Armstrong continues to embrace the world of terrible rich (and richly horrible) with her new technological satire Mountain mountain.
Jumping the rooms, the new film was created on Max on Saturday May 31, with a linear broadcast on HBO that evening. Since its release, the film has produced the Max graphics and is currently enjoying the world’s first place.
And while the public cannot disseminate the Succession Followed fairly fast, criticisms like what quickly becomes one of the best maximum films of the moment, the film being currently seated in a very respectable note of 79% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Armstrong’s latest black comedy follows a group of Musc / Bezos / Zuckerberg types as they meet during one of the mountain pensions isolated from their number while the world faces disorders fueled by AI that they may have played a non-insignificant role in creation.
Jason Schwartzman bursts his head over the parapet of Wes Anderson to play Hugo, the owner of the lodge who seeks to impress his billionaire friends. Steve Carell, meanwhile, represents Randall, the older man’s older statesman and a technology tycoon of the first who has taken him since the birth of the rest of the group.
Venis de Cory Michael Smith is the richest in the group and the owner of the social media platform at the center of the storm of disinformation engulfing the globe, while Jeff de Ramy Youssef is a pioneer of AI on outings with certain gangs.
After four seasons acclaimed by criticism SuccessionThe expectations were high for the next collaboration of Armstrong and HBO, and Francesca Orsi, executive vice-president of programming on the network is convinced that their continuous partnership will issue, saying: “We are delighted to be back in business with the singular talent Jesse Armstrong […]. Jesse raises the bar once again with a daring examination of modern male greed, power and ambition. The fact that this feature is its beginnings as a director will only raise what is already exciting on the page, and we could not be more excited to share this timely film with the world. »»
What do the criticisms say about Mountainhead?
As you can imagine with a high partition of high rotten tomatoes, criticisms have a lot of praise for the film, with Globe and mail Commenting on the quality of the “inventively profane” dialogue which is “as pleasant as Succession to the most absurd ”, while Empire Called that a “darkly funny” film with a “frightening final note”.
However, some answers were not as positive, because some criticisms found that the film lacked subtlety. Boston Globe said the film was “satire as an object of blunt force”, and the critic Christian Toto criticized the way the film “stacks hatred, not laughter”.
What is the verdict of the subscriber?
The viewers were even more severe the last of Armstrong, the film seated at a 27%RT audience partition. Many viewers have compared the film unfavorably SuccessionWith one saying that it was like the show, but with characters who were “boringly false and worse, funny”. Another called him “the most unpleasant film I have ever seen” while a third party said, “Just terrible.”
The viewers on Reddit were a little nicer, with a poster calling the film “Hilarious”, declaring that “Steve Carell was incredible.” Another praised the “fun dialogue and good laughter”, with other users saying “I Really appreciated this.
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Anyway, if you have subscribed to one of the best streaming services and intrigued by what looks like Succession encounter Glass onionThe film is available to broadcast on Max right now.
And if that does not entirely reach the brand, you can always consult one of the other films and programs arriving on Max in June.
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