Vice (2018)

Do not go to this movie if you want to be cheered up.  Maybe not the best choice in the new year season, where you are trying to get to a place where you see sweetness and light ahead.  It is about former Vice President Cheney’s rise to power and takes a strong position that Cheney—a shadowy puppeteer pulling the strings of the president and thus of the world—was bad.That is not really a stretch, because it was very clear that Cheney wanted a war, one that would enrich his crony's and he really had no hard feelings about bankrupting the country while he was at it, not to mention the impact of the war on countless lives of American veterans, and civilians as well as combatants in Iraq and Afghanistan. 
The thing that comes out of this is how this is really an arc of influence, one that was interrupted while Obama was in office, and while the economy got back on track, again, not harming too many of those in Cheney's stratosphere, but now they are back on track.  It is almost unbearable to watch in the era of Republicans unraveling the fabric of what has been built since the 1950's in terms of a safety net, and ignoring virtually everything else except enriching themselves and those who paid to put them in government. Disgusting.