Coup!

Name: Coup!
Genre: Thriller, Comedy
Released: August 2, 2024
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 61

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Greenwich Entertainment | Release Date: August 2, 2024 | Not Rated

Summary: Isolated on a seaside estate, an entitled journalist (Billy Magnussen) and his socialite wife (Sarah Gadon) take in a mysterious grifter as a private cook (Peter Sarsgaard). When a plague descends on the island, the wily cook rouses his fellow staff to rebel and take over the mansion. Their employer suspects the cook’s coup is part of aIsolated on a seaside estate, an entitled journalist (Billy Magnussen) and his socialite wife (Sarah Gadon) take in a mysterious grifter as a private cook (Peter Sarsgaard). When a plague descends on the island, the wily cook rouses his fellow staff to rebel and take over the mansion. Their employer suspects the cook’s coup is part of a more sinister agenda, and mind games between master and servant escalate into all-out class warfare.… Expand

Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 98 min

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Leslie Felperin

Aug 1, 2024

Although Coup! has a small cast and unfolds mostly in a secluded mansion during the 1918 influenza pandemic, it packs a lot of flavor, suspense and droll comedy into its slim 97-minute running time, making it fun enough to deserve an exclamation point in its title. Read full review

Katie Walsh

Aug 15, 2024

Anchored by its leads, Coup! is a tasty morsel of social commentary about problems that continue to plague our world. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Aug 1, 2024

This is quick, nippy entertainment that raises plenty of sociopolitical talking points without digging too deep into any of them. Read full review

The Guardian Xan Brooks

Aug 1, 2024

The film is fun, broad and exuberant, like a primetime Marxist sitcom, although it does feel indebted to a number of recent, better films around the same theme. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Aug 2, 2024

Although the milieu of “Coup!” speaks allegorically to the pandemic of our own century, it does so softly; the movie is ultimately more a tale of class warfare than public health. Read full review

William Repass

Jul 30, 2024

The film has little to add on the subject of the interplay of politics and infectious disease, then or now. Read full review

Natalia Winkelman

Aug 1, 2024

This implication that virility trumps effeteness is, amid an otherwise straightforward comedy, an uncomfortably regressive way to tell the story of how people vie for power in hard times. Read full review

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