Cocaine Bear: the must-see and must-avoid movie of 2022

Elizabeth Banks's new film, about the aftermath of a narcotics drop in a Georgia national park, may be less hilarious than it first sounds

There is a school of thought that Elizabeth Banks's version of Charlie's Angels flopped because it was too familiar; it was in effect a reboot of a reboot of an iconic television series that had long wrung itself dry. People knew exactly what to expect from it, so they stayed away. That's unlikely to happen with her next film, though, because her next film is going to be called Cocaine Bear.

And, I mean, you're in, right? You'd watch a film called Cocaine Bear. Regardless of quality or budget or genre, you'd watch Cocaine Bear. You wouldn't even buy your tickets online, because that would rob you of the opportunity to say out loud to a cinema employee: I would like to spend my own money to watch a film called Cocaine Bear."