Metal Lords betrays rather than upholds the values of the very kids it wants to revere.
It typifies American politics with a brand of acidic cynicism that yields big laughs and increasingly unlikable characters.
It seems to suggest that political life is so all-consuming that no happy, well-adjusted person would ever choose to be a part of it.
It isn’t a disservice to Louis-Dreyfus to say that her Emmy award for the role is in many ways a reflection of the quality of the supporting cast.
It’s perhaps a sign of Veep’s realism that the new HBO comedy feels a lot like a receptacle.
The film often plays like a straight-faced homage to a genre of film that has been cannily geared in recent years to urban audiences.