Adam McKay's background is in directing for the small screen. His early career included directing several episodes of Saturday night live. His work for the big screen was hailed in 2016 by winning the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for The big short. Five years later, the American filmmaker delivers Don't look up: Cosmic Denial, a new blockbuster he also co-wrote with David Sirota. Beyond the spectacle provided, this Netflix production released on the eponymous streaming platform enjoys an impressive cast composed of, among others, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Jonah Hill and Mark Rylance. The usual reading of Don't look up in the press invokes the climate issue. Our reading is quite different. We explain why.
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Our critic’s notebook: all the news of the films, our critical opinions, our moods, …
Throughout the year, we try to transmit our passion for cinema to you, through this critical notebook. You won’t find all the movies, only the ones we want to talk about!
We classify the films according to 3 levels of appreciation:
We highly recommend:
These are films that we liked a lot. They are in our eyes at least good. We find there our favorites and of course the masterpieces (see also on this subject our cult films).
We recommend:
You will find there films that we liked a little, and that we want to support despite their small defects.
We don’t recommend:
In this category, you’ll find films that didn’t interest us, or that we frankly disliked. These are our disappointments. At Mag CinĂ©ma, we want to respect the authors, and the work done. So we try not to use this appreciation so much, we prefer in general not to make a criticism when a film appears to us without interest, or contrary to our tastes. But sometimes, we have our blows of gueule, and have a voice different from what you can read elsewhere in the press!
