Network (1976)
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Reviewed 13 Aug 2025
Howard Beale you would've been psychically obliterated by ChatGPT. Anyway, a fun nightmare spiral about how the revolution will not be televised, but people will sure as hell be deluded (including by themselves) into thinking it's being beamed directly into their brains. At the same time, a brutal—if optimistic—takedown of the psychological emptiness of the new management class. On the technical side, there's brilliant variety—you'll have a run of straightforward shots in offices and flats, meetings and lovelorn private conversations, and then BAM, a gloriously extravagant sermon in a silly cathedral of light and showmanship.