
What went wrong here, exactly? Normally, this column is a celebration of novel, or exceptionally designed key art from around the world. Today, however we shall take a look at one of the worst posters of the year, one that sits somewhere in the Uncanny Valley, coupled with a kind of generic laziness. This hurts a bit, because I quite liked Olivier Assayas's peek into the Soviet collapse of the 1990s, and the evolution of the Russkiy Mir with the rise of industry Oligarchs and Vladimir Putin to reinvent the state TV as a more media-savvy entity charged to whip the population into a frenzy of hate. I loved Paul Dano and Jude Law's performances, as the political artist and the aspiring dictator, in The...
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