Greener Grass
IFC Midnight | Release Date: October 18, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
69
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
2
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Film ThreatAlan NgSep 29, 2019
Greener Grass is over-the-top hilarity. It’s grounded. It’s smart. It’s downright disgusting. Read full review
90
VarietyPeter DebrugeAug 30, 2019
Presented as if filtered through a sunny Instagram setting, Greener Grass won’t exactly make you envious of the over-idealized lifestyle it skewers, and yet it’s such a delightful place to inhabit, you won’t want to leave when the credits roll. Read full review
88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Anne T. DonahueOct 16, 2019
Fortunately, Greener Grass is as enticing as it is bizarre, and even if you don’t immediately find yourself frolicking amidst its braces-wearing populace, give it time: you’ll eventually be lured in by their take on suburban normal. Read full review
83
IndieWireKate ErblandOct 15, 2019
DeBoer and Luebbe have further expanded their nutty vision of suburban ennui and the painful consequences of keeping up with the status quo into an unsettling and amusing send-up of human behavior. Read full review
80
Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpOct 24, 2019
It’s the most awkward family TV show you’ve ever seen, offset by a never-ending barrage of gags squeezed off with such a consistent rate of fire that keeping up is impossible. But there’s a silver lining: Each is hilarious. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinSep 29, 2019
The cast commit enthusiastically to the material, walking that fine line between comic exaggeration and an almost earnest dramatic sincerity. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleJosh KupeckiOct 24, 2019
It can be an incredibly entertaining romp through the picket fence yards of an America that only exists in our collective unconscious. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyOct 18, 2019
The golf cart scene is an excellent example of what Greener Grass is attacking, and it's a sharp and subversive critique: it would be great to live in a more civil world, but too much civility leads to golf carts stalled at a four-way intersection. Read full review
75
The PlaylistJonathan ChristianOct 16, 2019
Counterbalancing a tongue-in-cheek treatise condemning the shallow obliviousness of the upper-middle class with niche comedic thrills, Greener Grass earns its reputation as a delightfully nauseating charmer that should be regarded as a salvia-covered tour de force for years to come. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineSteven ScaifeOct 11, 2019
In the film’s world, there can be no real resistance, as the suburbs have already won. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesGeoff BerkshireOct 17, 2019
Greener Grass is a movie that’s not only immediately destined for cult status — it’s the rare movie that truly earns it. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubKatie RifeSep 29, 2019
Always in control of its deeply bizarre, suburban surrealist tone, even when its story is more like a series of comedy sketches than a feature film. Read full review
67
The Film StageDan MeccaAug 30, 2019
Nothing is more subjective than comedy and this brand will surely turn many off. No matter. Those behind Greener Grass are clearly unfazed by the weirdness. They wallow in it, unabashedly. If only they kept it up for the whole one-hundred minutes. Read full review
60
TheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanOct 17, 2019
The movie’s biggest asset is DeBoer, who plays sweetly dim soccer mom Jill with a commitment that’s alternately terrifying and heartbreaking. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 23, 2019
What I can’t say is that Greener Grass is much of a movie, that it held together for me. It’s like three “Upright Citizens Brigade” episodes, built on a common cast and haphazzardly selected themes, barely jelling into a “story.” Still, see “Greener Grass” for the set pieces. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisOct 17, 2019
A deadpan take on suburban hell — I hesitate to call it a comedy, black or otherwise — the movie takes competitiveness to such excruciatingly surreal lengths that every would-be joke feels agonizingly strained. Read full review
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