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- [New] | Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Downsizing is a film that has no purpose, no reason to exist, and which lurches from one idea to another in the hopes that it lands on a story. It follows one idea, only to drop it, introduce another, then forget that idea for another one, going all over the place but nowhere in particular.
- David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: Maybe it should have been shorter?
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: The story behind The Washington Post’s decision to publish the Pentagon Papers exposing government lies.
- Matt Donato @ We Got This Covered
- Excerpt: Downsizing is a disappointing film about a supremely interesting topic thanks to a shift in direction that’s far more basic than the idea of a shrinking man suggests.
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Vadim Grigoriev @ kinoblog [Ukrainian]
- Nguyen Le @ InSession Film
- Excerpt: … a funky idea and the talent involved did everything except expanding our minds.
- Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
- Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: Downsizing’ has an intriguing satiric premise, tips its hat towards all manner of interesting themes, and begins with promise, only to unravel in spectacular, baffling fashion.
- Simon Miraudo @ Student Edge
- Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: I worried that the plot wouldn’t go anywhere during that first hour, but at least I was having fun. Once it’s proven the plot is going to its logical, generic conclusion I realized the fun had stopped.
- Kristy Puchko @ Pajiba.com
- Excerpt: Alexander Payne’s Downsizing, a comedy that uses a sci-fi premise to deliver an eye-roll-worthy hot take.
- James Roberts @ Glide Magazine
- Excerpt: Downsizing’s main problem is that Payne doesn’t know what to do with his premise once he’s pulled it off.
