When her husband goes missing, underappreciated suburban homemaker Sue Buttons (Allison Janney) gets a taste of being a local celebrity as she embarks on a city-wide search of Yuba County to find him. Trying to prolong her newfound fame, she stumbles into hilarious hijinks as her world turns upside-down: dodging a wannabe mobster (Awkwafina), a relentless local policewoman (Regina Hall), her local news-reporter half-sister (Mila Kunis) who's desperate for a story, and her hus... (Full plot summary below)
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When her husband goes missing, underappreciated suburban homemaker Sue Buttons (Allison Janney) gets a taste of being a local celebrity as she embarks on a city-wide search of Yuba County to find him. Trying to prolong her newfound fame, she stumbles into hilarious hijinks as her world turns upside-down: dodging a wannabe mobster (Awkwafina), a relentless local policewoman (Regina Hall), her local news-reporter half-sister (Mila Kunis) who's desperate for a story, and her husband's deadbeat brother (Jimmi Simpson), who all set out to uncover the truth behind the disappearance.
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| Screen DailyTim GriersonTaylor can’t juggle the different tones, and as Sue tries to stay a step ahead of the crooks and the cops as her lies threaten to unravel, the film’s attempts at societal critique feel facile. |
| The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenBreaking News in Yuba County features a pitch-perfect Janney at the center of a game cast of well-knowns. Yet as it fumbles through its unwieldy mix of crime-caper farce, social commentary and black comedy, the genre it most solidly nails is the one that poses the burning question "Why did so many accomplished actors sign on to this?" |
| IndieWireRyan LattanzioIt’s the kind of movie that seems to suck your soul out while you’re watching it, variably crass and slapstick humor landing with a bloody thud. |
| The A.V. ClubAllison ShoemakerNone of the curious friction of its story, nor in its cast, results in any sort of frisson of excitement, dread, or even shock. The best Yuba can inspire is indignation. You get all these folks together, Tate Taylor, and the end result is this? |
| Los Angeles TimesMichael OrdonaBreaking News in Yuba County lacks both the form and substance to cash in on its acting assets. |
| Original-CinLiam LaceyA farce that fizzles, a satire that sags, and a dead-end for its gifted cast, Breaking News In Yuba County at least starts well. |
| The New York TimesGlenn KennyOne may wonder how Tate Taylor, who has overseen high-profile, conventional, ostensibly respectable Hollywood product like “The Girl on the Train” and “The Help,” came to direct this amoral, repellent bag of sick, a movie whose biggest ambition in life is to start a bidding war at a late 1990s Sundance Film Festival and then bomb at the box office. Call it water finding its own level, maybe. |
| User ReviewNyashaPenelopeDCleverly done. You yell "WTF" so many times as you continue watching. A good comedy. Good and silly... I loved it. |
| User ReviewPhilMarksPut this down as a guilty pleasure like a car accident you can't stop watching. It's offbeat and over-the-top but somehow satisfying. The cast is beyond the plot with memorable character portrayals by Awkwafina, Juliette Lewis, Wanda Sykes, Jimmi Simpson, Ellen Barkin, and Clifton Collins, Jr. |
| User ReviewRalfbergsI liked it. Don't know why so many disliked it, I think it was a quirky black comedy type movie. |
