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For most of its runtime, this jet-black comedy expertly walks a tonal tightrope and plays games with audience sympathies, hopping between headline-of-the-week, heist and screwball crime to get the viewer rooting for some truly horrendous people. Pike, Dinklage and Wiest are all fantastic and surrounded by great supporting players.
Sadly, it falters at the end, taking one of the two obvious endings for a movie that is, essentially, Sociopath Vs Psychopath (either they both lose or they both win) and finishing off with a jarring switch from a story supported by capitalism satire to one that blasts you in the face with it, before nicking the ending from Layer Cake.
There are also some slightly weird moments regarding feminism, where the sociopath protagonist seems to co-opt its language, and the one character who throws gendered slurs and sexual threats at her is the one who stops her evil rise to power. Also, this is another queer sociopath for the list.
Rating: Pretty Good.
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