Assassination Nation
By Jose Taveras October 2, 2018
A dark, bloody, and raunchy comedy/thriller depicts how a quiet American town erupts in chaos after a data hack.
A dark, bloody, and raunchy comedy/thriller depicts how a quiet American town erupts in chaos after a data hack.
A clever pastiche of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Lethal Weapon,, and Basic Instinct, with a dash of neo-noir thrown in.
A playful—maybe to the point of self-indulgence—morality tale about the evils of selling out.
Armando Iannucci has moved from farce to the blackest of comedies and succeeds brilliantly.
Hell is other people, and a hell of a lot of wicked fun.
Beware of comrade teacher, though she looks harmless enough with her kewpie-doll perm and brown button eyes. But there’s no confidence she won’t betray, no boundary she’ll respect.
Lian (Chinese megastar Fan Bingbing) is a woman on a mission, but she’s neither Norma Rae nor Mother Courage.
With every shot a saturated, gorgeous explosion of kitsch perfection, this elaborate send-up of 1960s and ’70s occult sexploitation films boils and toils over a bubblin’ cauldron of sheer spectacle.
Director Yorgos Lanthimos’s blackly comic satire—a discombobulating rush of inventiveness and imagination that doesn’t let up.