A slickly produced film that penetrates the idyllic facade of 1950's American suburbia – with the blindness and idiocy of bigotry emphasized in a big way. Coen brothers films are generally too black-hearted and bizarre for my tastes, but what particularly struck me about Suburbicon was how effectively it mixed the disturbing and the deadly serious with the madcap, and the small amount of time it wasted getting down to the nitty-gritty…Of course, one cannot help but sympathize with the poor kid caught up in the middle of it all, who somehow has to survive both the spiraling mayhem and the trauma of having a murderous, sociopath for a dad.
