Wow! Robert Pattinson: the Trump-era Jim Carrey! Loved the steady pace and just-left-of-center slapstick!

All the ing actors were engaging and, I think, spot on for creating a cohesive vision of the theo-techno-meritocratic dystopia that's currently pervading our universe. Even Ruffalo and Collette's Senator and wife, who could've turned this production into an over-the-top psychedelic nightmare seemed to exercise restraint in roles demanding unrestrained madness.

Even so, Mickey 17 at various moments seems overly ridiculous until you realize everything here…

When she was two years old and some change, my daughter initiated watching Bambi together. I thought, "Oh sh**. The death scene." But that scene was, intentionally I think, abstract and quickly went over her head. I didn't anticipate the deep existential dread that would quickly overtake the toddler shortly after the start of the three-minute forest fire scene. Bless her heart, she cried uncontrollably for at least five minutes over the loss of bunny, racoon, fox, frog, etc. habitat…