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Suburbicon 2017

Certainly the most clever and elegant burn against Donald Trump to date.

This cutting satire takes on Trump's travel ban, the Confederate flag debate, and asks the question, who is the real danger to the U.S., foreigners or white middle class?

Frankly, I don't see why there's so much hate against this film. Maybe there are more conservative Republican Trump supporters than I'd been led to believe? Too bad and screw the lot of them!

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Oscar Issac is by far the best thing about this movie. Tries to find the dark humor magic like most Coen brother films but its just not that funny.

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I was scared to watch this movie due to all the poor reviews. This a Coen Brothers movie and I got exactly what I expected. If your unfamiliar with Coen brothers I can understand why you might find the movie off putting, it's odd with uncomfortable subject matter at times but the Coens are masters at that and this is no different. The cinematography was beautiful and casting perfect. Ignore the reviews and give this a shot I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

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I can't understand the low ratings for this film - I thought it was excellent! I mean.. that father-son scene at the end? Amazing!!

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Uncle Mitch (Gary Basaraba) and/or Roger (Oscar Isaac) could just about have saved this uninspired thriller with more screentime. Two brilliant performances in an otherwise lackluster flick.

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BlockedParentSpoilers2022-02-28T19:40:57Z— updated 2022-04-13T13:25:46Z

I get the irony that they were going for, by juxtaposing the stories of the two families: The entitled White Man that keeps wanting second chances, not hesitating to resort even to murder(s) to get the "dream life" he thinks he deserves, while the invisible, oppressed Black Man is supposed to endure the discrimination and violence stoically.

The problem is that I didn't find the film very interesting structurally. Several scenes felt disjointed and unnecessary, like Matt Damon's office scenes or the bus drivers' locker scene.

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Maybe it was not my day. So bored that I could not finish the movie

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A good performance from Matt Damon as always and a great entertaining plot/film with a deep message. Definitely worth your time.

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I loved Noah Jupe's acting, that kid was the real star here. The screenplay is good (Joel and Ethan Coen) but something in the directing did not get the best of the plot. Maybe the music is not good either.

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This film couldn't try to be a Coen Brothers film any harder... and it utterly fails at living up to what it wanted to be. The whole thing felt like there were chunks of story or backstory that were missing. You could figure out, at a basic level, the reasons why some things happened, but I found I rarely cared. A number of the plot points and scenes felt like they were there simply to set up something you'd see later on (placing or re-arranging chess pieces) with no other real weight. That's not to mention a large B-plot that seems to be mostly superfluous to the A-plot. For such a quality cast, I am surprised how little I cared about any of the characters... or the plot... or the aesthetic... or much of anything. Huge letdown.

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Good movie but from the trailer i thought it was something different

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It happened to me lately more often that I ask myself: why the heck did you want to watch this movie? Than I go back to the trailer to discover, again, you can't trust them.

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I'm a little surprised at some of the negativity this film has garnered. I felt it was quite an effective satire on the white picket fence culture. Fingers are easily pointed at outsiders yet they fail to perceive the darkness underneath their very noses. Entertaining, whether taken as political doctrine or not.

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Loved this movie!! Entertaining right to the end - great ending.

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Humerus if expectantly weird (it is a Coen Brother’s movie) view of suburban life. What lies behind the keyhole is not all that you expect.

A very topical view of just how dark people can be be it with strangers, work colleagues, neighbours and family. For some people all they truly care about is themselves.

I just want to ask; who the heck was driving that fire truck!? LOL

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This is what happens when a great script (by Joel & Ethan Coen) is directed by a merely average director (George Clooney). The story itself is great, but one note acting from Damon and direction without any sense of art or wit sink this to mediocre territory. Oddly, the trailer seemed to get some beats right that this movie version so clearly screwed up. Sad. 6/10

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I'm one-third of the way through this movie, and there hasn't been a single funny comment or set piece in this film. I don't need yet another tip-toe around how the right are nothing but white nationalists and neo-Nazis, and always have been, w/out actually saying the words. By doing this, it's harmful to the violent oppression they execute. Had I known what this movie actually was, I never would've sat down to watch this.

Edit: I finally finished watching it, and while I didn't care for how the Mayer family was treated as an afterthought to the story, I did greatly appreciate the ending, when Nicky killed his father, a murdering, Christo-fascist neo-Nazi in his own right, then went to play some baseball. That's how it should be. These things are murderous subhumans, and the only acceptable one of them is a dead one.

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Suburbicon is a lot. Although, I can't pinpoint what happens in the movie or what it's trying to say.

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In the 1950’s, a boy named Nicky (Noah Dupe) plays baseball with his black next door neighbor. Which rages all the racists in town and leads to a home invasion and the death of his mother Rose (Julianne Moore).
Things get weird when her twin sister moves in and dyes her hair Rose’s color. Starts acting motherly and his dad (Matt Damon). Won’t point out the burglars in a line up.
The film got bad reviews but I found it to be interesting the from start. You think you know everything but you don’t. It’s kind of like Knives Out.
Except in this film the white people are doing all the crimes. As everyone picks on the harmless black people next door.
As for it not being funny like people here have said. No one said dark humor should be laugh out loud funny.

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I watched it because I thought it was downsizing. I wonder how many others did the same. Really not a good movie.

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Something stinks in the quiet suburban urbanization. Actually, many things smell bad.

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its a fantastic waste of time movie that makes you sad for your time...

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It's quite dark and has some interesting themes at play. But it ultimately feels like Clooney is trying too hard to mimic the Coen Brothers. It's too bad, as I'm sure if they had done the movie themselves it would've been brilliant...

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