The Worst Movies of 2024
variety.com“way-ll” after another, plays Reagan as the hero of a fairy tale. For the entire film, he’s driven by exactly one issue — fighting Communism — and the movie, cutting historical corners right and left, turns him into the ranch-hand superhero who singlehandedly defeated it.
It makes a hash of everything else, to the point that even the Iran-Contra scandal is spun as the bad people who hated Ronnie trying to destroy him.
It’s like watching an infomercial for an aw-shucks cult leader. The Reagan we see has here no inner conflict, and neither does the movie.
Joshua Oppenheimer’s stultifying post-apocalyptic left-wing chamber-drama musical is set entirely in a bunker, and it’s the kind of movie that makes you feel like time itself has stopped. (Or maybe it’s just your watch.) Michael Shannon and Tilda Swinton are the corrupt parents of a wealthy family who’ve been living, for 20 years, in the mockup of a luxe home embedded in an underground salt mine.
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