Triangle of Sadness: 2022’s most intellectually ambitious film, if not its "best"

The Cannes-winning social satire is positively Bunuelian, if broadly Pythonesque, in its evisceration of all economic strata and prevailing superstructures of social media, luxury and fashion. See it.

In another year of generally weak films, as the streaming era continues its dominance and 90% of the planet remains childishly obsessed with infantilizing fantasy and superhero schlock, a few works qualify as must-see––preferably in a theatre––art. Each had different aims, some more ambitious than others.  Equally important if wildly divergent films lik…