Review: ‘Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World’ — but do expect one of 2024’s best movies

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Review: ‘Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World’ — but do expect one of 2024’s best movies

I don’t know he did it, exactly, but filmmaker Radu Jude has conjured a rarity: an angry, clear-eyed satiric flaying of modern capitalism and humankind’s infinite capacity to disappoint that doesn’t settle for a tone of “well, that’s the way things are, might as well give up.” Direct from Bucharest, with tough love, the film carries the title “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World,” opening this week at the Gene Siskel Film Center. It…