Critics are trashing George Clooney's 'strikingly bad' new movie 'Suburbicon' - here are the most brutal reviews
"By the time Oscar Isaac swoops in with a fedora and a wolfish grin, the movie has become a bludgeoning pastiche."
"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
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