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frazzled

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3. Yeah, he's kind of jumped the shark
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 10:20 AM
Jun 2020

As evidenced by the bomb his new movie has laid. With a meager 40% approval rating (like Trump’s!) on from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, it is apparently out of touch to the point of insult. What happened?

East Coast slickness meets heartland folksiness in “Irresistible,” a political satire so broad and blunt that it flattens every joke and deflates every setup. Movies like this should skip and jab; instead, this second feature from the writer and director Jon Stewart (after his impressively accomplished prison drama, “Rosewater,” in 2014) lumbers and flails. Set shortly after the 2016 election, it feels like an artifact from a particularly contentious past, a stale corn chip trampled into Party-convention carpeting.

. . . Attacking both political affiliations with equal disgust, “Irresistible” seems disappointingly fatigued, its glossy veneer concealing a hollow core. Stewart’s plodding script, far removed from the light-footed political commentary he regularly delivered on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” evinces no apparent zest for its subject.

. . . Trafficking in the elitism it purports to deplore, “Irresistible” presents a homespun cliché of Middle America, where Wi-Fi is like gold dust and political ads scream with flags and fear-mongering. This patronizing tone can at times be troubling

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/movies/irresistible-review.html
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