DON’T LOOK UP MOVIE REVIEW

Director/Writer Adam McKay goes back to his wackier comedy days while not letting go of his cynical political polemic style with this new Netflix film Don’t Look Up. Starring Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio as astronomers who make the discovery that a comet is headed straight for Earth and it will cause an extinction event in six months. Unfortunately, pretty much nobody, from the ‘once-would-have-been-too-shallow-and-dumb-to-believe’ President of the United States (Meryl Streep) and her Chief of Staff/son (Jonah Hill), to the most popular journalists of the day (Cate Blanchett and Tyler Perry) are interested or take them seriously past what immediate gratification they can get out of the situation. McKay’s incredibly broad and absurd humor that he uses here had mixed results on our critics, but they all agreed that as it went along, it became harder and harder to get behind the laughs when all you wanted to do was cry. Listen to Chris, Frank, Eliot, and Beau give their review.

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DIRECTED BY: Adam McKay

STARRING: Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Rob Morgan, Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande, Scott Mescudi, Himesh Patel, Melanie Lynskey, Michael Chiklis, Tomer Sisley, Paul Guilfoyle, Robert Joy, Robert Hurst Radochia, Conor Sweeney, Ishaan Khatter, Liev Schreiber, Ashleigh Banfield, Sarah Silverman, Chris Evans

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

Christopher Lawrence Cox (Founder, Da Boss)

Born in the wilds of northern Virginia, Chris managed to put all of his survival skills to use and barely escaped with his life to Austin Texas in 1992 where ever since he’s dabbled in everything from plumber’s assistant to sandwich maker, from band to bar management. An opportunity to see theatrical release films for free by becoming a critic on a local public access show called “The Reel Deal” turned into a full-time job when Chris and his friends decided to take it to the internet. They built the site Spill.com, adding multiple podcasts and animated features, to no small amount of success. During this time, a fortuitous friendship sprung up between Chris and young Brian Salisbury, who was also a local film critic, and they merged their forces of will, and their laundry list of ideas for shows, to eventually build this community of critics. While Brian eventually followed his heart to a new family, Chris continues on with a cast of colorful folks from all over the country (and a few others). You can also check out Chris in his videocast, along with Martin Thomas and Danni Danger, that One Of Us does with our friends at Bell of Lost Souls: Crossover Event. He also regularly guests on the video game website Rage Select. Follow Chris on Twitter and Facebook and check out his Amazon Wish List.

 

 

Frank Calvillo (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad)

Born and raised in South Texas, Frank currently lives in Austin and has been in love with movies ever since his father showed him some Three Stooges shorts when he was five years old. Today he loves all kinds of film, regardless of era, country, budget or genre. He believes every film has an audience and is at least one person’s favorite movie. After writing for Sight & Sound and Slackerwood, he now writes for Cinapse where his increasingly random taste in all flavors ...