‘Bombshell’ Review: When You Have Nothing Substantial to Say about #MeToo or Fox News

The premise of Bombshell should be a combustible mix.

You have the setting of Fox News—a place where the only injustices that can ever happen are against rich, white men—running up against the #MeToo movement.

Unfortunately, director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph don’t seem to have anything to say about Fox News as an organization or workplace sexual harassment.

They’re content to let the story unfold, but there’s no comment or critique, so instead this volatile conflict is rendered as nothing more than sensationalism.

It’s a movie that solemnly intones against sexual harassment, …

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