Review of Cocaine Bear (2023) by Jude Dry for IndieWire — 23 Feb 2023
The blatantly ridiculous appeal of “Cocaine Bear” is proof enough that the project isn’t lacking in self-awareness, but to what end? It’s not unhinged enough to qualify as full-blown parody, and not smart enough to be called satire.
Banks seems uninterested in directly referencing exploitation movies of the past, or in burying winking cultural critiques within the outlandish action. Maybe that’s too much to ask from a movie called “Cocaine Bear.
” Like its title, what you see is what you get.
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This review of Cocaine Bear (2023) was written by Jude Dry and published by IndieWire on 23 Feb 2023.
Cocaine Bear has generally received mixed reviews.
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