Review – “MONKEY MAN” (2024)

New Big Picture: “WE ARE ALL STUCK, MAN”

The Internet is furious because one of YouTube’s biggest movie critics talked about the business of movies and hard work of filmmaking instead of following the crowd for another tedious target-of-the-week “beatdown” of a bad movie. When did it become more about the performance of anger than the performances on screen – and why is it always CERTAIN movies, riling up certain viewers? What’s so controversial about saying you want to be more than angry online… and how did we all get stuck here in the first place?