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The Depression was not just an urban phenomenon limned in Warner Bros. gangster films and Gold Diggers musicals

Whatever Works is a vituperative, hostile film that mellows after a great painful-looking shot of Larry David lying on top of a woman he’s landed on while trying to commit suicide by jumping out a window

The movie is lugubrious, like a Chekhov play about comedians in Los Angeles, a Chekhov play with hundreds of dick jokes, in which Jimmy Fallon might show up in a cameo as himself

Tightly controlled scenes avoid the pointlessness and repetition of the nouveau zombie films, limning class struggle in unexpected ways

In expiation for his pusillanimity in the opening reel