Clooney is back in the director’s chair with a Coen Brothers script and Damon to boot.
The film’s synopsis reads: “Suburbicon is a peaceful, idyllic, suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns – the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that.
“But the tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge must navigate the town’s dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit and violence.”
While Suburbicon has Hollywood heavyweights involved the film has ultimately failed to impress the critics, garnering just 29% positive reviews. Here’s some reactions.
Daily Telegraph
It’s a hectic, sour and muddled film – a flailing counterfeit of satire that keeps slipping on its own banana skin supply, and never remotely gets to grips with what it thinks it’s sending up.
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The Times
George Clooney directs Matt Damon from a Coen Brothers script. Brilliant, right? How could they go wrong? Well, if nobody involved in the creation of Suburbicon went terribly, egregiously, wrong, they didn’t quite go right either.
Hollywood Reporter
It pushes too hard from the start, then steadily goes off the rails from dark to dyspeptic, lacking the originality, bite or tonal consistency to make up for dipping from a very familiar James M. Cain well.
Entertainment Weekly
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 a cohesive centre, and a soul.
TIME
The filmmakers never let us forget how hip they are to humanity’s dark side, and their hyperawareness is more wearying than it is illuminating.
Wall Street Journal
Suburbicon is not only unfunny, a bad sign for a black comedy, but deep-dyed dislikable.
Time Out
Suburbicon is so inoffensive in its competently mounted quirk that you won’t mourn the film that might have been.
New York Post
Suburbicon is a surprisingly tone-deaf combination of two wildly different stories that simply don’t work in concert.
The Wrap
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.
Nevertheless, not all the critics disliked the movie, with The Independent awarding it five stars.
The Independent
Co-scripted by the Coen brothers, [Suburbicon] is both wildly entertaining in its own macabre, violent fashion, and also very perceptive about racism and hypocrisy in middle-class white America.
Daily Mail
It’s immensely stylish, darkly funny, and has dialogue partly written by the Coen brothers, which never hurts.
Variety
A lightly sneaky and entertaining movie.
Suburbicon will be released in UK cinemas on November 24, 2017.