Mountainhead (2025)

Is it me or are they really making movies these days in such a way that audiences are going to really struggle to decide whether they’ve seen something half decent or utterly dreadful?

Before watching this I’d seen a fragment of a review that described the dialogue as a ‘barrage’, and that’s basically all you need to know here. Like a game of buzzword bingo set to the pace of a bid caller at a Sotheby’s auction.

At times the words seem to detach themselves from the characters, leaving one with the sense that a familiar actor has been left stranded in the scene, his artificial soul having abandoned him.

There are a few laughs. The amoral tech bro caricatures are done well enough, but the drama feels superficial and forced.

Maybe it didn’t help that I live with someone who cannot abide scenes with loads of food and everyone appears too busy talking to eat, or indeed chopping away at an orange, but whenever the camera looks down, it’s still only in two pieces.