Although the sci-fi trappings of Downsizing make it seem like a big departure from Payne’s previous work — The Descendants, Sideways, About Schmidt — it is the same in important ways. It’s a movie about a man suddenly separated from people he’s loved, trying to learn how to live again. Read full review
08/12/38 · ‘Downsizing’ Review: The Future Has Some Heart (For a Change) | Venice 2017 by Brian Formo August 30, 2017. SHARE TWEET. Alexander Payne has been making movies about middle-aged, 04/04/39 · Downsizing is the second failed social satire of 2017 prominently featuring Matt Damon in the lead role, but Alexander Payne’s (Nebraska, Sideways) misfire here is a much tougher pill to swallow ‘Downsizing’ Review: When Small Comforts Loom Large Alexander Payne’s comedy scales up a scheme to save the planet and get rich in the process. 04/04/39 · In the end, Downsizing is an unfortunate disappointment to close out 2017, failing to reach the greatness its various pieces are certainly capable of. Getting bogged down in a muddled message about saving the planet and helping others, the film never engages the audience and is surprisingly lacking in meaningful drama or stakes. 03/04/39 · Movies as crushingly misguided and poorly-executed as Downsizing make me want to paraphrase Roger Ebert’s legendary review of 1994’s North.. “I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it.” “I have no idea why [Alexander Payne], or anyone else, wanted to make this story into a movie, and close examination of the film itself is no help.” 04/04/39 · Downsizing is a social […] Review: Downsizing There have been movies this year I have walked out with a lot more ire than Downsizing, but few have left me feeling has baffled and disappointed. 04/04/39 · Is Downsizing good? Nope. Really? It is very, very bad. What’s it about? In the near-future scientists have figured out how to successfully and safely shrink human beings down to about the size
Downsizing (2017) Matt Damon in Downsizing (2017) Matt Damon and Christoph Waltz in Downsizing (2017) 719 of 906 people found this review helpful. 22 Dec 2017 Alexander Payne's Downsizing starts with an intriguing "What if?", the launch pad of all good sci-fi stories, and very quickly devolves into a 21 Dec 2017 One of my favorite movies of 2017, “War for the Planet of the Apes,” posited near- total human extinction as a more-or-less happy ending. 22 Dec 2017 Downsizing Has Big Ambitions but Little Payoff December 22, 2017 In Alexander Payne's Downsizing, there's a solution for everything. 30 Aug 2017 Downsizing review – Matt Damon thinks small in Alexander Payne's miniature masterpiece. 5 / 5 stars 5 out of by the world. With the excellent Downsizing, Payne has simply gone that extra mile. 30 Aug 2017 4:42. 13 14. 25 Jan 2018 Alexander Payne takes us down the rabbit hole of miniaturisation for a blisteringly brilliant film overwhelmed by its own implications.
22 Dec 2017 Alexander Payne's Downsizing starts with an intriguing "What if?", the launch pad of all good sci-fi stories, and very quickly devolves into a 21 Dec 2017 One of my favorite movies of 2017, “War for the Planet of the Apes,” posited near- total human extinction as a more-or-less happy ending. 22 Dec 2017 Downsizing Has Big Ambitions but Little Payoff December 22, 2017 In Alexander Payne's Downsizing, there's a solution for everything. 30 Aug 2017 Downsizing review – Matt Damon thinks small in Alexander Payne's miniature masterpiece. 5 / 5 stars 5 out of by the world. With the excellent Downsizing, Payne has simply gone that extra mile. 30 Aug 2017 4:42. 13 14. 25 Jan 2018 Alexander Payne takes us down the rabbit hole of miniaturisation for a blisteringly brilliant film overwhelmed by its own implications. 22 Dec 2017 In Downsizing, writer-director Alexander Payne sets aside the deadpan satire that has distinguished his work from Citizen Ruth (1996) to About 21 Dec 2017 Review. Movie Reviews December 21, 20175:01 PM ET The to-be- downsized are required to have all their hair shaved off, for no reason
Alexander Payne is one of my favorite directors working today. Unfortunately, this movie is not Sideways, Nebraska, or The Descendants. It has a bit of a satirical 13 Jan 2018 Downsizing movie review: Honey, I shrunk Matt Damon (but made one of 2017's best films). Downsizing movie review: Alexander Payne's new Overlong sci-fi comedy has a heavy message, mature content. R; 2017; 135 minutes. Save. April 26, 2017 Even in healthier financial times, such as now, firms often downsize because it is seen as a way to reduce costs, adjust structures, and create 21 Dec 2017 By Alissa Wilkinson@alissamariealissa@vox.com Dec 21, 2017, 11:50am EST Udo Kier, Matt Damon, and Christoph Waltz in Downsizing.
Downsizing is a film that satirises God-complexes and admirably tries to nudge us all in the right direction. Payne leaves us with a simple act of human kindness in the final scene of this entertaining and thought-provoking film. (YOU MAY ALSO LIKE: Phantom Thread (2017) Review ― A Gorgeously Stitched Tale Of Passion And Compromise)
03/04/39 · Review: In ‘Downsizing,’ Matt Damon Sweats the Small Stuff. One of my favorite movies of 2017, “Downsizing” is an ambitious movie about the value of modesty, and its faults are
