satiric

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She is joined, yet again, by Courteney Cox’s intrusive newscaster, Gale Weathers, who is in all seven films and is meant to serve as a satiric commentary on journalism’s obsession with blood and gore.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

The darkly satiric film, written and directed by Coralie Fargeat, has captured something in the moment about women, aging and media, inspiring memes, conversations and countless Halloween costumes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2025

The wide, bright, satiric world of “Bottoms,” director and co-writer Emma Seligman’s second feature, expands and contracts as needed.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2023

Vincent Canby, writing in The Times, called it “a satiric expression of the American Dream in the closing years of the 20th century.”

From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2023

The more I flipped on, the more I knew: Morgenstern wasn’t writing any children’s book; he was writing a kind of satiric history of his country and the decline of the monarchy in Western civilization.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman