A meticulously mix of violence and comedy that doesn’t pull either of those punches, and that strangest of joys is maintained throughout M3gan.
Author: Emily Wheeler
Member of the Indiana Film Journalists Association. Rotten Tomatoes certified critic. Movie omnivore.
Baumbach has made a deeply strange film, and he managed to make it big, loud, and potently concerned with the things that keep us up at night. And he made it hilarious. God bless him.
It’s guaranteed to be one the stranger movies you could sidle into at your local AMC, and it’s worth taking a bite out of.
All the attempts to say anything about abuse gets filtered through the story’s unreal elements, and they reflect back only the most basic ideas on the topic before completely losing the thread.
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