The Columnist (2019)
7/10
Serial Mom for the Social Media Age
20 December 2021
Warning: Spoilers
With a very engaging central performance, the implausibilities of the plot are nicely skated-over as she overreacts to vicious trolling, with an escalating body count and (inevitably) collateral damage on some who clearly didn't "deserve what they got".

The core plot is fairly bluntly set against the daughter's school-based campaign for free speech, so this doesn't win too many marks for subtlety - but the daughter and other supporting players are also well-drawn such that I found myself going along quite willingly, even to the not-really-resolved ending.

Good fun if you're in the right mood.
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