'Mountainhead' is very funny nightmare fuel for an age of billionaires

By Aisha Harris,

Linda Holmes, Gene Demby, Liz Metzger, Mike Katzif, Jessica Reedy

Published June 3, 2025 at 9:11 AM EDT

Steve Carell in Mountainhead. — Steve Carell in *Mountainhead*.

Succession creator Jesse Armstrong is back with Mountainhead, a new movie with characters who are just as wealthy, powerful, and insecure as the Roy family. Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Ramy Youssef and Cory Michael Smith star as four tech moguls gathering for a low-key guys' weekend of poker. But business and unchecked, overinflated egos quickly lead them all down a very dark path.

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Aisha Harris

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Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes is a pop culture correspondent for NPR and the host of Pop Culture Happy Hour. She began her professional life as an attorney. In time, however, her affection for writing, popular culture, and the online universe eclipsed her legal ambitions. She shoved her law degree in the back of the closet, gave its living room space to DVD sets of The Wire, and never looked back.

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