No Comment
2020 · 16m
Directed by Russell Goldman
Tones: dark, provocative, theatrical
An aging action star endures his thousandth press junket while a scandal brews around him, in a blistering critique of Hollywood in the #MeToo era.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Goldman takes the most predictable target—a washed action star, the #MeToo reckoning—and somehow makes it *worse* by refusing the comfortable moral clarity everyone expects; it's a film that doesn't let you off easy, and that's precisely why it matters.
The theatrical staging and editing rhythm evoke a long lineage of Hollywood satire from Wilder through Altman, but Goldman's command of duration and repetition—the junket as a form of torture—feels like a deliberate formal argument about complicity and exhaustion.
The entire film hinges on Goldman's choice to keep the camera locked on Goldman's face during the non-answers—that refusal to cut away, to let him off with a reaction shot—is what transforms a familiar critique into something genuinely unsettling.
Reviews
No Comment is gritty, raw and uncompromising. The punches land with precision and by the end, there is no space for doubt.