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By Louisa Moore (249) for Screen Zealots (249) on 21 Dec 2018

Arizona may be lacking in originality, but it is thrilling, funny, silly and bloody, and I enjoyed every minute of it…

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By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for Crooked Marquee (120) on 05 Sep 2018

The movie soon stops being the funny version of this story and just becomes the regular version, where McBride is a psycho with no compunction…

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By Travis Hopson (923) for Punch Drunk Critics (518) on 05 Sep 2018

The zany turn the film takes only works in part, though, and that's largely due to the performance by McBride who continually ramps up Sonny's…

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By Andrew Crump (271) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 30 Aug 2018

Arizona bathes its absurdist satire in the bleakest humor and takes a sober glance at the consequences of America’s worst modern economic calamity…

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By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 29 Aug 2018

Arizona creates a sense of isolated, store bought Americana that represented safety for many of its country's citizens during the mid-aughts…

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By Laura Hiros (161) for Diario La Estrella (Fort Worth, TX) (57) on 26 Aug 2018

Although…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 24 Aug 2018

Takes a feeble premise and runs it into the ground…

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By Simon Abrams (730) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 23 Aug 2018

Arizona might have worked better as a smart-ass social commentary if its tsk-tsking of consumerist myopia wasn't so consistently on the nose…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 23 Aug 2018

First-time director Jonathan Watson crafts a film that’s neither funny nor exciting, although it often seems to be straining to be one or…

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By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 23 Aug 2018

When it comes to something worthwhile to say, the bleakly black and blood-red comedy Arizona turns out to be as barren and deserted as its…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue (704) on 23 Aug 2018

A fine state deserves better than this lackluster thriller that fails both as a horror-comedy and as a suburban satire…

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By Jonathan W. Hickman (551) for Daily Film Fix (355) on 23 Aug 2018

The pressure was on first time director Watson to let McBride loose. It's a shame…

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By Matthew Passantino (89) for Under the Radar (636) on 23 Aug 2018

Arizona is a madcap, nasty delight, directed with swift efficiency by Jonathan Watson in a directorial debut…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 23 Aug 2018

This 85-minute, Ten Little Indian-style comedy-horror mash-up is basically a cameo-studded muddle that may have looked good on paper, but movie…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 22 Aug 2018

Arizona doesn't benefit from passes at intensity, doing just fine as a character study of unhinged types drowning in financial ruin while stuck…

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By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Aug 2018

Director Jonathan Watson’s super-violent Arizona is a well-done but chilly and essentially unlovable black comedy with one tiny spark of…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 22 Aug 2018

[The movie] wants to be a serious thriller and a demented comedy, but it never achieves a good balance between the two…

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By Frank Scheck (1,741) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 22 Aug 2018

Severely wasting the talents of Rosemary DeWitt, who really, really deserves better material, Arizona is as arid and barren as the state that…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 22 Aug 2018

Danny McBride is at his funniest and scariest in Arizona, a darkly comic film noir that works well as both a violent thriller and as a ruthless…

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By André Hereford (101) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 22 Aug 2018

The film, set in 2009, misses its comic target by a mile, resulting in a dumbfounding collision of unsympathetic characters always choosing…

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