2024 · drama · comedy · sci-fi
Mountainhead
Directed by Jesse Armstrong1h 49m2024
A group of billionaire friends get together against the backdrop of a rolling international crisis.
Our read: Mountainhead (2024) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · comedy · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / comedy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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