The Estate
Release Date: November 4, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
37
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
4
Negative:
5
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
67
ColliderChase HutchinsonNov 4, 2022
Though it doesn’t have the audacity to close when it should with its characters at their very lowest, The Estate is still proper fun in seeing a deeply improper family tear each other apart. Read full review
60
The New York TimesTeo BugbeeNov 4, 2022
This is a comedy that takes a vicious, over-the-top look at family greed, and fortunately, the cast members are game to play their characters’ attempts at flattery in the most unflattering manner possible. Read full review
50
Screen DailyTim GriersonNov 4, 2022
Writer-director Dean Craig gathers a winning ensemble for his dark comedy and, intermittently, the characters’ rank awfulness is a joy to behold. But despite boasting a fair amount of snide one-liners and a general air of gleeful misanthropy, the film ends up becoming strained and predictable, not quite liberating or shocking enough. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubMark KeizerNov 4, 2022
The execution is where it’s lacking: the wit, the timing, the headlong comic drive, and the ability to make us laugh at actions and dialogue that, in any other context, would be rude or distasteful. Read full review
40
TheWrapFran HoepfnerNov 4, 2022
It would be one thing if the film was fully committed to its nastiness — a type of comedy we don’t see much of these days at all — but “The Estate” is too often hampered by its own self-awareness. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comTomris LafflyNov 4, 2022
Even with an embarrassingly rich cast, The Estate chokes on its own airlessness. Read full review
30
Screen RantFerdosa AbdiNov 11, 2022
This is a terribly unfunny venture, which fails at the film’s only job. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshNov 4, 2022
It’s not funny, it’s not satirical, and it’s not worth your time, or Toni Collette’s Read full review
29
Paste MagazineJesse HassengerNov 4, 2022
Without any actual classicism to accompany Craig’s outdated notions of outrageousness, the movie quickly turns fustier than its edgy posturing lets on. Craig simply watches a bunch of selfish people behave badly in predictable ways, and occasionally has them lunge at each other in anger. How perfectly droll! Read full review
25
IndieWireJude DryNov 3, 2022
It takes truly terrible script to make such charming and accomplished comedic actors seems so wooden and lifeless. Read full review
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