Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio Cut Through the Furious Mess of Don’t Look Up

Having had his fill of past disasters—the 2008 financial crisis and the bloody reign of Dick Cheney—director Adam McKay has turned his attention to a current catastrophe. Don’t Look Up (in theaters December 10, Netflix December 17) is an allegory for climate change, a man-made mess that those same men seem hellbent on denying. The film is a long, overweeningly arch satire of government negligence and intransigence; of the media’s complicity in allowing that to be the political norm; and of a widespread American ethos that refuses to recognize the waters lapping at our feet, the fires tearing through our… Read Full Article