Friday, October 27, 2017

Critics are trashing George Clooney's 'strikingly bad' new movie 'Suburbicon' - here are the most brutal reviews

"By the time Oscar Isaac swoops in with a fedora and a wolfish grin, the movie has become a bludgeoning pastiche."

"By the time Oscar Isaac swoops in with a fedora and a wolfish grin, the movie has become a bludgeoning pastiche."

Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

"A garish and overblown crime melodrama that combines clumsy noir with lame jabs at 1950s suburban conformity and racism, two subjects whose satirical sell-by date are now decades past."

"A garish and overblown crime melodrama that combines clumsy noir with lame jabs at 1950s suburban conformity and racism, two subjects whose satirical sell-by date are now decades past."

Alonso Duralde, The Wrap

"I frankly don't know why 'Suburbicon' happened. I do know that pulpy black comedy combined with a straight-ahead story of racism translates into sanctimonious pulp."

"I frankly don't know why 'Suburbicon' happened. I do know that pulpy black comedy combined with a straight-ahead story of racism translates into sanctimonious pulp."

David Edelstein, Vulture

"It's strikingly bad, too somber to be a comedy and too dizzy to work as drama."

"It's strikingly bad, too somber to be a comedy and too dizzy to work as drama."

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

"'Suburbicon' is not only unfunny, a bad sign for a black comedy, but deep-dyed dislikable."

"'Suburbicon' is not only unfunny, a bad sign for a black comedy, but deep-dyed dislikable."

Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal

"This startling misfire is a tonal disaster from start to finish."

"This startling misfire is a tonal disaster from start to finish."

Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com

"It feels like broad farce madly in search of a cohesive center, and a soul."

"It feels like broad farce madly in search of a cohesive center, and a soul."

Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly

"'Suburbicon' might be the biggest embarrassment to pious Hollywood liberalism since 'Crash' won best picture in 2006."

"'Suburbicon' might be the biggest embarrassment to pious Hollywood liberalism since 'Crash' won best picture in 2006."

Chris Klimek, NPR

"A misguided mix of nasty comedy and civil rights drama."

"A misguided mix of nasty comedy and civil rights drama."

Rafer Guzmán, Newsday


Source: Business Insider India