CINEOS Premiere

Network

A washed-up newsman tells the truth on air, the network turns his breakdown into the highest-rated show in the country, and satire curdles into prophecy.

It runs on language — speeches delivered at full volume, nothing left to silence — and it uses that voltage to talk you into laughing before it turns the laughter against you. There's a dark completion at the end, but no purge: the film hands you the release valve and shows that pulling it only implicates you further. What lingers is the accusation that you are already inside the machine it's describing, and it attaches itself to everything you watch afterward.