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16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugePresented 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.
- 90Film ThreatAlan NgFilm ThreatAlan NgGreener Grass is over-the-top hilarity. It’s grounded. It’s smart. It’s downright disgusting.
- 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.
- 83IndieWireKate ErblandIndieWireKate ErblandDeBoer 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.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinThe Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinThe cast commit enthusiastically to the material, walking that fine line between comic exaggeration and an almost earnest dramatic sincerity.
- 75Slant MagazineSteven ScaifeSlant MagazineSteven ScaifeIn the film’s world, there can be no real resistance, as the suburbs have already won.
- 75The PlaylistJonathan ChristianThe PlaylistJonathan ChristianCounterbalancing 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.
- 67The Film StageDan MeccaThe Film StageDan MeccaNothing 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.
- 67The A.V. ClubKatie RifeThe A.V. ClubKatie RifeAlways 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.
- 30The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisA 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.