Review of Downsizing (2017) by Ty Burr for Boston Globe — 21 Dec 2017

The film’s ultimate message — help other people, basically — is, while useful and necessary, dramatically rather slack, and you notice with a shock that the film’s central conceit has almost entirely dropped off the table by the final third.

Payne’s microcosm is so like our macrocosm that after a while he simply forgets to make the distinction.