No Problem with 'Beef'
"Beef" is a new dark comedy with a near entire Asian-American cast

A pensive 11-year-old girl challenges the status quo with a group of misfit friends while attending a religious summer camp.
"Beef" is a new dark comedy with a near entire Asian-American cast
At first glance, one wouldn't think John Carpenter's cult classic would be a thematic double-billing - or that Free Guy would be worthy of being mentioned in the same sentence as They Live - but the two films of vastly different genres have more similarities upon further examination.
A baking competition that delivers cookies ‘n screams.
A dark film in the tradition The Brother’s Grimm.
Ultimately the problem with The Bubble is that it plays everything for laughs to get around the audience’s defenses. But it comes off like a privileged white male thinking that ridiculing everyone else equally is the road to equality. And it’s not. And it's definitely not funny to pretend that it is.
In a film where a Black couple is framed to be the lead characters, they still managed to get shuffled off to the sidelines. The enthusiastic cast delivers well on goofy bits- but can only go so far before they begin to fall flat.