Review of Suburbicon (2017) by Franz C — 14 Apr 2018

George Clooney's "Suburbicon" is an excellent example of how incredibly difficult it is to pull off a great dark comedy. Get the tone wrong in the slightest and nearly everything becomes displaced in such a way that the entire work trips on its own feet eventually and falls to the ground with a deafening thud.

There is potential in this twisty 1950s tale that takes place in an all-white community that is jolted by a black family moving into the neighborhood, but it does not possess the requisite balance of subtlety and obvious-as well as when to shatter such a state of equilibrium and perform truly shocking tonal acrobatics.