If the Jesse Armstrong series Succession was considered a recital by most, then his new film, Mountainhead, might be its encore. It is tonally similar to its predecessor − captivating enough to hold your attention until the end, yet light enough that you do not need it to last any longer.

The quartet tasked with carrying out Mountainhead consists of tech magnates, brought together for a weekend in a house disguised as a cabin somewhere in the mountains of Utah. The confrontation between the old forms of capitalism and the multinational corporations that have emerged from the digital revolution was one of the central motifs of Succession. This time, Armstrong chose to arrive after the battle − after the triumph of Silicon Valley's princes.

The most mediocre of the four, Hugo Van Yalk (Jason Schwartzman) − a creator of wellness apps and the only one in the group whose assets have not yet reached the billion-dollar mark (his "friends" call him Souper, a nickname referring to soup kitchens) − invites Venis (Cory Michael Smith), Randall (Steve Carell) and Jeff (Ramy Youssef) to play poker. To reach the mountaintop, the men release several metric tons of CO₂ into the atmosphere by taking private jets or a convoy of vans with tinted windows.

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