Sentences with phrase «biting social satire»

An eerily prescient, biting social satire, J R tells the story of a precocious 11 - year - old capitalist who, with the unwitting help of his school's resident composer, inadvertently creates the single greatest virtual empire the world has seen.

Rowan and Martin's Laugh - in: The Complete Fourth Season Details: 1970 - 71, Time Life Rated: Not rated The lowdown: In its fourth season, this comedy sketch show continued its irreverent and biting social satire, taking aim at politics and the then - cultural revolution.

It's a macabre and inspired conceit, and one mined for biting social satire by writer / director Brian Taylor on his first solo outing since his gonzo collaborations with Mark Neveldine (the Crank films, Gamer), which similarly provoked and parodied cultural bugaboos.»

I wet my pants with glee at this biting social satire!

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Daily Show alum Samantha Bee stormed the late night scene in 2016 with some of the most biting and unflinching satire and social commentary on TV.

A bit Alexander Payne social satire, a bit Mike Judge's «Office Space,» «The Promotion» keeps the laughter mostly low - key while addressing deflating truths about occupational angst - writer / director Steve Conrad's sturdy thematic stock - in - trade.

The Lobster was a bit of a shock for everyone who went in expecting an off - kilter black romance — instead director Yorgos Lanthimos served up a disquieting social satire with underpinnings of horror as his first English - language feature.

The continuing glut of zombie movies hasn't taken any bite out of this social satire, in which slackers find it hard to tell when their fellow citizens start lumbering about and feasting on humans.

Below is the first trailer for Gunpowder & Sky's Tragedy Girls, a biting satire about social media stardom — think of it as a modern - day Clueless, only these girls murder people... and tweet about it.

While it opens with the promise of a modern take on the 1983 comedic classic Trading Places — which featured some truly biting racial and social satire — Get Hard rapidly devolves into nothing more than a sorry excuse to trot out the stereotypes it purports to subvert.

Ten more: S. Craig Zahler's Brawl in Cell Block 99, a violent yarn with an indomitable Vince Vaughn performance; BPM, a moving look at AIDS activists in Paris; Before I Fall, a teen Groundhog Day; Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name, a lush holiday at an Italian villa; Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, with its ingenious time - shifting narrative; Alexander Payne's social comedy Downsizing; William Oldroyd's Lady Macbeth, a period piece with bite; the uneven but lively satire The Square; Steven Soderbergh's clever heist picture Logan Lucky; and the Twilight Zone vibe of The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

It might be a bit overblown in places (the social satire doesn't really land) but the heart of the film is a touching, personal story, and in this respect the film is a rousing success.

While Happy End will most likely be eclipsed by Haneke's own formidable shadow in the eventual endless comparisons of what has come before, this is still wickedly superb social satire, and the little bit of sugar evident in his latest formulation only allows the lacerations to cut deeper.

: Finding itself at the middle of the competition pack among our Cannes Critics» Panel grid (see the full grid view), our Nicholas Bell mentioned he «most likely be eclipsed by Haneke's own formidable shadow in the eventual endless comparisons of what has come before, this is still wickedly superb social satire, and the little bit of sugar evident in his latest formulation only allows the lacerations to cut deeper.»

Didn't like Jordan Peele's directorial debut, a biting, hilarious, and terrifying social satire that takes race relations head - on?

At once a social commentary and autobiographical, her works stands as biting satire of her role as an artist working in the arena that is painting in America today.

He said some of her work in the solo show tended toward caricature, but most of it was bold and forthright: «She turns out a piquant bit of social satire, an accomplished still - life with warmth of color and with finish, or a romantic landscape.»