Review: 'Creative Control' Starring Benjamin Dickinson, Nora Zehetner, Alexia Rasmussen And Reggie Watts

Billed as taking place “five minutes” in the future, writer-director Benjamin Dickinson’s dry comedy "Creative Control" isn’t the first to use a science fiction setting to satirize current culture. More serious works like “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” “The Handmaid's Tale,” and much of Philip K. Dick’s bibliography have commented on their creators’ current experience through the lens of an imagined world. “Creative Control” takes a similar approach, though the distance between the present and future is far smaller than many of its predecessors, and it relies far more on the comedy inherent in its near-future situations.

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With its focus on augmented reality and its immersive capabilities, Dickinson’s film is fully aware of its audience. It premiered at tech-centric SXSW in 2015 and offered content exclusives to Mashable and The Verge, rather than the more traditional entertainment...