When a Film’s Message Doesn’t Match Its Spectacle
<em>Last Night in Soho</em> imbues the swinging ’60s with psychological horror. But its social commentary is less distinctive.
by David Sims
Oct 29, 2021
3 minutes
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Every Edgar Wright film to date has been a bubbling cauldron of movie homages, winking visual gags, and genre tributes. The British director emerged as a noteworthy filmmaker in 2004 with , a “rom-zom-com” that chucked classic George A. Romero–style zombie movies in a blender with a comedy about a man-child who just needed to grow up. It should have felt like a cheap spoof, but Wright has since made a career out of balancing varied referential with the action-film parody , the brilliant video-game pastiche , the sci-fi yawn
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