Suburbicon

George Clooney's Suburbicon is all quirk, no soul.

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Suburbicon’s awkward medley proves that George Clooney is no Coen brother.

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Star stays behind the camera for Coen-scripted take on 1950s hypocrisy – and adds an earnest subplot that nearly sinks the ship.

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George Clooney’s ‘Suburbicon’ bristles with rage and bitter humor.

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Suburbicon’s flaws are a result of its ambitions. Even though the whole thing doesn’t jell, the film is rife with many sharp and funny moments. Like suburbia itself, sometimes the reality ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.

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George Clooney's messy 'Suburbicon' disappoints as a retro dark comedy.

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George Clooney adapting and directing a Coen brothers screenplay seems like a natural move: He’s been reliably great in their films, even lesser ones like “Hail, Caesar!”

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George Clooney directs Matt Damon and Julianne Moore as a couple in over their heads with a dastardly plan in this caustic satire co-written by the Coen brothers.

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George Clooney has something to say, but even a Coen brothers script can’t give him the nuance he needs.

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Matt Damon and George Clooney reunite, but without any magic, in Suburbicon.

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From a script by the Coen brothers and starring Matt Damon, Clooney’s directorial effort takes aim at the suffocating hypocrisy of 50s white-bread America, but can’t quite land its punches.

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George Clooney's sixth film is wincingly timely but sour and muddled.

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Mr. Clooney gets some things right in Suburbicon, including visually and with his two appealing child actors, who together give the movie a heartbeat.... But he skimps on the adult characters’ inner lives, and, once the narrative weight shifts to the Lodges, he never finds the tone that balances the movie’s sincerity with its nihilism.

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George Clooney’s mid-century dystopia, starring Matt Damon and Julianne Moore, and Richard Linklater’s ode to military comradeship.

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It’s tempting to criticize George Clooney’s “Suburbicon” as two films that never quite coalesce into one complete whole, which is partially true.

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Everyone in George Clooney’s film is a bastard, worthy of being shot, stabbed, blown up, or poisoned with lye.

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Venice Film Festival: The mid-century design succeeds where the satire and thriller elements fail.

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Clooney's overpolished Suburbicon misses the mark by a mile.

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Tone-deaf misfire from Clooney, Coens.

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Very bad neighbors populate a black comedy based on a Coen brothers script.

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