
Wall Street Journal
Suburbicon is not only unfunny, a bad sign for a black comedy, but deep-dyed dislikable.
Full reviewGeorge Clooney directs this 1950s-set noir, co-written by himself and the Coen brothers. Stars Matt Damon, Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis).
Suburbicon is a peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns… the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that. But the tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge (Damon) must navigate the town’s dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit, and violence.
LessSuburbicon is not only unfunny, a bad sign for a black comedy, but deep-dyed dislikable.
Full reviewA movie that flits between genres and ideas without ever settling on one coherent, guiding principle.
Full reviewTwo incompatible movies - one archly cynical, the other painfully sincere - wedged uncomfortably together.
Full reviewA surprisingly tone-deaf combination of two wildly different stories that simply don't work in concert.
Full reviewIt makes a run at cleverness, trying to be a dark screwball commentary on America's race problem. But instead it's just a spectacular flop.
Full reviewBoth wildly entertaining in its own macabre, violent fashion and also very perceptive about racism and hypocrisy in middle-class white America.
Full reviewI frankly don't know why Suburbicon happened. I do know that pulpy black comedy combined with a straight-ahead story of racism translates into sanctimonious pulp.
Full reviewIt’s a movie that reels the audience in and keeps it hooked: with smart little kicks of surprise.
Full reviewDirector George Clooney raids a leftover script by the Coen brothers that lacks the snap of their more vicious crime comedies.
Full reviewIt’s a hectic, sour and muddled film – a flailing counterfeit of satire that keeps slipping on its own banana skin supply, and never remotely gets to grips with what it thinks it’s sending up.
Full reviewSuburbicon is too lightweight and mannered; it lacks proper fury. Watching it is like having your trouser-leg savaged by an energetic small dog.
Full reviewJust too obvious in its satirical depiction of the dubious morality and social inequality behind the squeaky-clean façade of postwar American life, though it's watchable enough...
Full review...despite evoking the period through great design work, the film just doesn't live up to the sum of its parts.
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