In the bosom of Suburbicon--a family-centred, all-white utopia of manicured lawns and friendly locals--a simmering tension is brewing, as the first African-American family moves in the idyllic community, in the hot summer of 1959. However--as the young patriarch, Gardner Lodge, and his family start catching a few disturbing glimpses of the once-welcoming neighbourhood's dark underbelly--seemingly random acts of unprecedented violence paired with a gruesome death will blemish,... (Full plot summary below)
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In the bosom of Suburbicon--a family-centred, all-white utopia of manicured lawns and friendly locals--a simmering tension is brewing, as the first African-American family moves in the idyllic community, in the hot summer of 1959. However--as the young patriarch, Gardner Lodge, and his family start catching a few disturbing glimpses of the once-welcoming neighbourhood's dark underbelly--seemingly random acts of unprecedented violence paired with a gruesome death will blemish, irreparably, Suburbicon's picture-perfect facade. Who would have thought that darkness resides even in Paradise?
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| TIME MagazineStephanie ZacharekGeorge Clooney’s statement-making black comedy Suburbicon, playing in competition here at the Venice Film Festival, is a misfire on nearly all counts. |
| Independent (UK)Geoffrey MacnabCo-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. |
| Vanity FairGuy LodgeI laughed in many of the places where Suburbicon wants us to laugh, yet something feels ill-balanced from the get-go-like a carelessly mixed gin and tonic that you drink anyway, wincing at the bitter follow-through. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura CliffordClooney's film telegraphs everything with a beacon, eschews basic logic and didn't elicit a single smile, let alone laugh. The best that can be said about "Suburbicon" is that it sports some cool vintage wallpaper. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid NusairGeorge Clooney's best movie since The Ides of March... |
| Cultured Vultures Danielle SolzmanSuburbicon...is such a messy film that the satirical social commentary doesn't hit. |
| El Mundo (Spain)Luis MartínezA great vomitone against things such as the eternal America, eternal republicanism, the eternal American way of life, eternal racism and, already, eternal eternity. [Full review in Spanish] |
| Movie MomNell Minow"Suburbicon" is like a beautifully gift-wrapped box that turns out to be empty or a shaggy-dog story that is supposed to be funny when there's no ending. |
| FILMINK (Australia)Greg DolgopolovSuperbly realised film that is paced to perfection. |
| The Daily BeastMarlow SternWhen [George Clooney] explores his passions, whether it be journalistic integrity or the false virtues of white American liberals, the man is a force to be reckoned with. |