"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."
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."
David Edelstein, Vulture
"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."
Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal
"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."
Chris Klimek, NPR