Apparently this had its first screening this weekend and Charlize Theron wowed the critics, vaulting into the Best Actress race beside Renee Zellweger. Interestingly, they’re marketing it as a kind of comedy- maybe the humor comes from the fact that these women who all want to work on Fox News so they can spout racism freely find themselves attacked and harassed by the racist misogynist who founded the network in part so he (and all the men who work there) can have his own personal trough of victims who all look exactly like he wants them to. So gross. And just like I thought, the movie basically ignores the evil of the network itself in order to portray these women as heroes for taking him down. That’s going to be an unsurpassable problem for me anyway, even if it does end up being good.
