lampoon

The brothers of “Blood Knot” lampoon the meaning of whiteness with costume choices.

Both installments lampooned the wealthy and depicted people dying under tragic circumstances in picturesque locations.

For a movie that starts dying a slow, painful death from its first act, its attempts to lampoon our fear of death are ironically futile.

This is the kind of throw-everything-at-the-screen parody for which you can imagine a writers’ room whiteboard-listing every movie it wants to lampoon.

“Companion” is confident, but with so little to back it up, that confidence comes off as arrogance, making the film feel ironically steeped in the pernicious masculine tone it’s trying to lampoon.