Destroy All Monsters: We Need to Have a Long Look At Our WEINER

Elyse Sternberg and Josh Kriegman’s Weiner opens with a quote from Marshall McLuhan – “the name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers” – which we might just as well paraphrase to: may the gods help those whose names write the jokes themselves. Weiner is one of the year’s great films, but audiences may never know it, because the film, the story, and the person himself, are all hiding behind a dick joke.

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