BlackBerry
The Battle of Waterloo: Matt Johnson and Matt Miller on BlackBerry
By Adam Nayman | 03/24/2023 | CS94, From Cinema Scope Magazine, Interviews
Howerton’s 40-proof, rageaholic performance skirts caricature but comes out the other end as a psychologically deft tour de force. This loosely fictionalized version of Balsillie, whose seething, pent-up contempt for partners and competitors alike emanates from some darker place (maybe even subconscious solidarity with his geeky new underlings) is a memorable and malevolent creation—the closest thing Canadian entertainment has had to a Gordon Gekko since the glory days of Traders.
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