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Peter Bart: The Tough Hollywood Lessons In Buzzy Hits ‘Adolescence’ And ‘The Studio’
Netflix's Adolescence is gritty and minimalist, while Apple's The Studio is over the top. But both are dominating the conversation, Peter Bart writes.
Howard plays himself as a tyrannical auteur who petulantly refuses to cut a vacuous scene from his overlong thriller, warding off pleas only to change his mind at the moment of truth. In Britain, Keir Starmer, the prime minister, interrupted parliamentary debate to inform members that he watched the show with his family and recommended colleagues follow suit. On one level, Adolescence thus represented the fulfillment of Matt Remick’s dream: A blockbuster built around a modest budget, its structure and release controlled by a non-celebrity filmmaker who sipped tea, not Kool-Aid.
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