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By Erin Whitney (65) for ScreenCrush (954) on 12 Sep 2017

Downsizing is all half-empty, big ideas that accomplish very little…

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By E. Oliver Whitney (111) for ScreenCrush (954) on 12 Sep 2017

Downsizing is all half-empty, big ideas that accomplish very little…

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By Noah Gittell (113) for Nerdist (550) on 11 Sep 2017

If you want to simply laugh at Downsizing, you can…

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By Sarah Marrs (566) for Lainey Gossip (399) on 11 Sep 2017

The biggest problem with Downsizing isn't that it's bad, it's that it's the wrong movie about the wrong character, and starring the wrong person…

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By Allyson Johnson (161) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 11 Sep 2017

Downsizing is messy, inconsistent and noisy in its many messages, but there's something so refreshingly heartfelt about it all…

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By Orlando Maldonado (53) for Movie Network (62) on 10 Sep 2017

An evolving story about self discovery, complimented by ecological worries and an unexpected, but always fresh, romance. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Sarah Kurchak (64) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 10 Sep 2017

Payne’s heart might have been in the right place with this one, but the execution feels flippant at best…

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By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for Thrillist (209) on 10 Sep 2017

The first act of Downsizing is a rich and hilarious what if…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Sep 2017

Alexander Payne's defenders might call his often acidic touch Swiftian, though it comes off more toothlessly noncommittal…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 09 Sep 2017

Throughout Downsizing, I kept asking myself what the point of all of this was, never engaged by its hodgepodge of themes…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 08 Sep 2017

One part relationship comedy, one part existential human drama, one part environmental warning and, regrettably, one part white-saviour myth,…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 06 Sep 2017

Alexander Payne’s science-fiction comedy Downsizing is less a fully formed satire than a clever idea stuck in first draft and stretched uncomfortably…

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By Mike Ryan (265) for Uproxx (697) on 06 Sep 2017

Downsizing is Alexander Payne's most ambitious movie, but that also might be his worst enemy…

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By Walter Chaw (1,360) for Film Freak Central (1,643) on 05 Sep 2017

Downsizing is a movie that thinks it's smarter than you by a filmmaker who thinks it's all right to have this sort of Asian character as long…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Vanity Fair (761) on 04 Sep 2017

Goes soft and strangely condescending on us, coming within perilous distance of white-savior tradition as Damon becomes the change he'd like…

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By Scott Menzel (120) for We Live Entertainment (357) on 03 Sep 2017

There are honestly two different films here and the second one is almost unbearable to sit through…

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By Greg Dolgopolov (4) for FILMINK (Australia) (1,405) on 03 Sep 2017

interesting, but a missed opportunity for something grander…

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By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 31 Aug 2017

Downsizing is arguably the most flawed of Payne’s work, but despite its apocalyptic overtones, it’s also his most optimistic…

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By John Bleasdale (289) for CineVue (2,163) on 31 Aug 2017

This is Payne's most political film since Election and refreshingly eschews the gentle social realism of Sideways and Nebraska for something…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 30 Aug 2017

As medium-grade satire (hardly another The Truman Show), Downsizing works fine enough…

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