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5.2/10 • 137

2025-05-221h 49m

TV MovieComedyDrama

Humanity is in their hands.

A group of billionaire friends get together against the backdrop of a rolling international crisis.

Directors
Jesse Armstrong
Writters
Jesse Armstrong
Editors
Jesse Armstrong, Mark Davies

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  1. Steve Carell

    Steve Carell

    Randall Garrett

  2. Jason Schwartzman

    Jason Schwartzman

    Hugo 'Souper' Van Yalk

  3. Cory Michael Smith

    Cory Michael Smith

    Venis Parish

  4. Ramy Youssef

    Ramy Youssef

    Jeff Abredazi

  5. Daniel Oreskes

    Daniel Oreskes

    Dr. Phipps

  6. Hadley Robinson

    Hadley Robinson

    Hester

  7. David Thompson

    David Thompson

    Leo

  8. Ali Kinkade

    Ali Kinkade

    Berry Oliphant

  9. Ava Kostia

    Ava Kostia

    Paula

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Jun 4, 2025

6/10

"Moutainhead"aspires to be more, than it reasonably achieves. In one sense its an exercise in moral relativism. Moral judgements for four wealthy tech executives are only true or false, when viewed from their perspective, which is mired in hyper capitalism. For them, morality is grounded in the ruthless pursuit of individual wealth, allegedly to leverage technocratic human evolution (trans-humanism). When one of them challenges this world view, during a rich pals getaway, things turn darkly comical. You can see the rather understated critique of the modern obsession with an on line life this film presents. A place where truth is allegedly manufactured, not told. The gleeful, almost childlike immaturity, wilful recklessness and narcissism, of those who have built it. Also on a certain level, the tech elites uselessness. One can't even boil an egg. So much for the value of social media, right? Well yes and frankly, "no". This film overplays its hand. It tries to promote the mainstream media as a source of truth, when in fact, people have turned to social media precisely "because" of mainstream journalism's unwillingness, to tell truth to power. In spite of its flaws, social media has given genuine investigative journalists and courageous whistle blowers, a platform to expose the malfeasance of corrupted power. Something this film, rather too conveniently, overlooks. In summary, this is not a bad film. As a mild, dark comedy, it very reasonably makes wholly valid points about social media and by extension, big tech's, shortcomings. Where it falls short, its its inability to tell the other side of the story. In vogue labels, like "misinformation", so popular with glib politicians and the less than transparent mainstream media, could as easily be applied to them, as they could, the high tech, on line world and those who built it.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
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Keywords
artificial intelligence (a.i.)snowbillionairegroup of friendsend of worldfinancial crisisfake newsabsurdcritical