"Thank You For Smoking" directed by Jason Reitman [review]

Abstract

The phrase “Thank you for not smoking” has become an epithet we see so often that many of us don’t register it anymore. By removing the most important single word in the sentence and titling this blackly comic satire as he has done, Jason Reitman has made it clear from the outset that this film is an exercise in irony and provocation. On those terms, it works very well indeed.