Following the biting satire (or is it brutal depiction of reality) he explored with The Big Short (2015) and Vice (2018), director Adam McKay next takes a look at the horror of global destruction and what would happen if the elected leaders of the world were ill-equipped to deal with such peril should it somehow materialize in Don’t Look Up.

After Michigan State University graduate student Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) and her professor Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) discover a startling large comet (about the size of Mt. Everest) that is on a direct path to collide with Earth, they set about trying to alert the world to the pending doom the planet faces. To achieve this, they embark on all-out media tour (because why would the people of Earth care if they were going to be obliterated if it wasn’t announced on television) that almost immediately leads them to an...