satire

The high-concept satire from writer-director Alejandro González Iñárritu, which cost about $125 million to make, sold just $8 million worth of tickets at more than 3,300 domestic theaters its opening weekend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

But the problem with Iñárritu’s approach is that he’s fashioned “Digger” as a satire for a post-satire world, a state of living where every day is almost comically bleak.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

The satire from director Alejandro González Iñárritu about an impending climate change apocalypse has divided critics, yielding very mixed reviews.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

"Erdogan should be open to the art of satire," he said, denying the charges against him and saying none of Turkey's most famous comedians or political satirists had been prosecuted in the past.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

The chat rooms made her blog feel inconsequential, a comedy of manners, a mild satire about a world that was anything but mild.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

But Verhoeven’s Hollywood films are all satires of one aspect of American life or another.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

The latter film is one of Keaton’s lesser-known but still brilliantly limned stone-faced satires, in this case involving cowpokes and its star’s tender feelings for a milk cow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

“Two brilliant showbiz satires, ‘Hacks’ and ‘The Studio,’ will likely be battling it out,” predicts Matt Roush.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2025

But it wasn’t until 2019, when Ms. Auder’s yoga satires began to get some notice, that she thought she might try to sell the book one last time.

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

His lines were witty and clever and as curtain encores he sang parodies he had written on whatever were the popular songs of the day, and these were brilliant satires on the original themes.

From Historic Fredericksburg The Story of an Old Town by John T. Goolrick