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By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 26 Oct 2017

A rather dreadful black comedy that never manages to be funny enough to justify its ham-handed social commentary…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 26 Oct 2017

There are no hospital corners here, but Clooney finds ways to keep the material rolling along, even when humor and suspense take a periodic break…

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By Mathew Dekinder (396) for Suburban Journals of St. Louis (395) on 26 Oct 2017

In Suburbicon, none of it comes together and, in the end, it feels like Clooney is doing his best Coen Brothers impression instead of making…

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By Wenlei Ma (213) for News.com.au (213) on 26 Oct 2017

Everything about it feels like it tried too hard to be something more, that it does far too much telling and not enough showing…

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By Adam Graham (720) for Detroit News (2,682) on 26 Oct 2017

Suburbicon wants to say something about us, today, but it can't get the words right. It can't even get the language right…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 25 Oct 2017

I'm inclined to give Suburbicon a mild thumbs up…

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By Pete Hammond (936) for Deadline Hollywood Daily (332) on 25 Oct 2017

Despite a dream teaming of director George Clooney, the Coen Bros, Matt Damon and Julianne Moore this misguided mishmash of noirish black comedy…

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By Bill Gibron (1,013) for Film Racket (579) on 25 Oct 2017

A sloppy social commentary which says more about the people who made it than the individuals up on the screen…

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By George Thomas (95) for Akron Beacon Journal (177) on 25 Oct 2017

In Suburbicon, it feels as if the actor-director pulls punches as he tries unsuccessfully to walk the line between drama and satire…

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By Lindsey Bahr (430) for Associated Press (1,685) on 25 Oct 2017

too obvious to be particularly subversive or revealing…

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By Rafer Guzman (1,080) for Newsday (2,345) on 25 Oct 2017

A misguided mix of nasty comedy and civil rights drama…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 25 Oct 2017

A movie that possesses the stylized, lethal-Looney-Tunes slapstick we’ve come to associate with Coenesque humor, as well as the fiery, thinly…

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By Erick Estrada (196) for Cinegarage (196) on 25 Oct 2017

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By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 25 Oct 2017

Yet there are some satisfying guffaws and bloodsoaked tension to be gleaned from the noir part of the story that unfolds in the house occupied…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 25 Oct 2017

The movie does get some fun gory mileage out of its cracked-Pleasantville premise; but mostly it feels like broad farce madly in search of…

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By Bill Zwecker (128) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 25 Oct 2017

The idea of taking a mid-1980s screenplay by the Coens’ and marrying it to a very different story, penned by Clooney and Heslov, does not…

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By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 25 Oct 2017

One true tale that exemplified the time might have helped…

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By Charles Ealy (164) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 25 Oct 2017

Like comedy, satire has no room for error, and there are too many false notes in Suburbicon to land it in the top tier of the six films directed…

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By Kevin Lally (258) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 25 Oct 2017

Muddled merging of an old Coen Brothers crime script and the real-life racist eruption in 1950s Levittown, PA. A misfire for director George Clooney…

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By Keeva Stratton (79) for Rescu (Australia) (79) on 25 Oct 2017

In true Coen Brothers style, it borders on the obscene and the absurd, in order to make insightful observations about the human condition…

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