Mountainhead is a tech-bro horror show
Jesse Armstrong’s sharp, satirical film about four tech entrepreneurs imagines a plausible dystopian future.
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Rachel Cooke
Rachel Cooke is a writer at the Observer. In the 2006 British Press Awards, she was named Interviewer of the Year.
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