“The Social Reckoning” Fails to Reckon with Society
While this film thinks that it is diagnosing the cause, it is merely diagnosing a symptom instead.

William Gregory Magnussen (born April 20, 1985) is an American actor. He has been featured in the films Into the Woods (2014), Bridge of Spies (2015), Birth of the Dragon (2016), Game Night (2018), and Aladdin (2019), and has had supporting television roles in Get Shorty (2017) and Maniac (2018). In 2021, Magnussen starred in the sci-fi series Made for Love on HBO Max and appeared in the films The Many Saints of Newark and No Time to Die. In 2023, he starred as Rey "The King" Kingston in Spy Kids: Armageddon. He has starred in Broadway and off-Broadway theatre productions, including 2013's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, for which he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. Description above from the Wikipedia article Billy Magnussen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
While this film thinks that it is diagnosing the cause, it is merely diagnosing a symptom instead.
Strangers in a crowd, exchanging glances, looking away, continually managing to run into each other then part ways, end up at the same diner, find they've rented the exact same vehicles, and are then made to travel together to learn once more whether they can both find genuine adoration and companionship again. This really does, in so many words, sum up the foundational gist of of this new feature film from writer Seth Reiss ("The Menu") and director Kogonada ("The Acolyte", "After Yang"). Yet, it's all only the set-up for the REAL wonder of everything that happens before, during, and in the aftermath of a magical, meaningful journey.
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