satire
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As a satire, it’s almost too implied — the filmmakers barely bother to develop their ideas, figuring correctly that people already agree the internet is, at best, a neutral-evil.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
Pulido said the video was a satire and the character was based on a scandal at the time involving merengue singer Elvis Crespo.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
Mr. Sokolov and co-writer Alex Litvak barely bother with scratching out the crudest imaginable dialogue, which is unfortunate because they fancy themselves the creators of a sociopolitical satire along the lines of “Get Out.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
It sounded like he was the star in a Marx Brothers satire — or in “Team America: World Police.”
From Salon • Mar. 20, 2026
In Lucian’s little satire, Apollo asks Hermes: “I say, why do we never see Castor and Pollux at the same time?”
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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