Mainstream

48/100

It hurts, doesn't it? Seeing one of your favorite actors carry an entire film that just doen't hold up. What's way worse, though, is seeing that movie -even though you'll regret it- just because of that same actor.

A tiny bit part about Mainstream actually knew what it was doing. It understood that, inside influencer culture, some of the people out there making content aren't the problem, but that they all share the chance of becoming emotionally-manipulated in a matter of seconds while also passing that onto their audience -and practically everyone around them-, creating a self-destructive yet stable community. But that was virtually it, despite some of the performances, of course.

From emoji-vomiting to 8-bit music, the movie acknowledges its natural weirdness, but fails at taking advantage of it. It was like watching a YouTube video without a structure, which could've been great to make a statement through its editing if it hadn't played it safe throughout the whole film.

Effectively everything in Mainstream feels like a mess for better or worse but, for neither cases did writer/director Gia Coppola could prevent from getting old since that ability to manipulate the subject matter to one's liking lacked the most.