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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Dec 2017

The film’s lead is far and away its least interesting character, and Damon dials back every watt of his charisma or wit…

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By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 20 Dec 2017

The pure ambition of the story - and the inquisitive and contemplative manner in which it is told - is laced with a sincerity that is rare…

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By Tru A (5) on 20 Dec 2017

Worst 2 hours of my life. Better off watching honey, I shrunk the kids or the incredible shrinking woman…

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By Rafer Guzman (1,080) for Newsday (2,345) on 20 Dec 2017

Alexander Payne's sci-fi comedy-drama is half-brilliant and half-meandering, but never boring…

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By Jeremy S (1,980) on 20 Dec 2017

Saw a screening last night, what started as a decent premise went in to a completely different direction...twice...that ultimately was depressing…

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By Pete Hammond (936) for Deadline Hollywood Daily (332) on 20 Dec 2017

Payne has cast this film perfectly with Damon an ideal fit as Paul, and Wiig nicely underplaying her comic predicament…

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By John H (1,894) on 20 Dec 2017

Too bad they didn't cast Nicolas Cage and John Claude Van Damme in this movie as that's all it was missing…

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By Rick Kisonak (485) for Seven Days (657) on 20 Dec 2017

Payne's latest is big on laughs early on as its premise is established…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 20 Dec 2017

Payne deserves credit for trying something outside of usual, reality-based, Omaha-set comfort zone…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 20 Dec 2017

Absolutely stupendous: smart, funny, poignant, a true original…

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By Rick Bentley (466) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 20 Dec 2017

The film is a massively muddled mess of ideas that might have made more of an impact if Matt Damon's performance wasn't so painfully bland…

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By Epicladysponge T (201) on 20 Dec 2017

Downsizing gives us the once-in-a-while size-changing theme and a very rare shrinking feeling to it but for the absolutely wrong reasons…

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By Sara Stewart (700) for New York Post (6,650) on 20 Dec 2017

Alexander Payne's new sci-fi comedy, about a near future in which humans can opt to go small, squanders its big ideas in record time…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 20 Dec 2017

After having gone to great lengths to explain its premise, Downsizing thus shifts gears about halfway through, becoming a pretty good movie,…

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By Staci Layne Wilson (667) for AtHomeInHollywood.com (165) on 20 Dec 2017

Unfortunately, the structure is a mess. It feels like a series of scenarios strung together, without cohesive light at the end of the tunnel…

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By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Artforum (101) on 20 Dec 2017

[Alexander] Payne and his collaborators have not shrunk from any challenge…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 20 Dec 2017

The result is a dadaist swirl of satire, pie-eyed whimsy, and speculative futurism — like Gulliver’s Travels through the wrong end of a telescope…

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By Emily Yoshida (237) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 19 Dec 2017

I appreciate that Payne is more interested in blowing out a middle-class American perspective, and its perpetual victimhood narrative…

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By Irene R (52) on 19 Dec 2017

It did look promising. If it was a comedy about going small then in my opinion it failed…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 19 Dec 2017

Every scene — the pointed and the pointless — goes on too long. No character is wholly motivated or explained…

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