There is a lot of quality work on display in Suburbicon, especially on the acting front, but overall the film has difficulty hanging together. For the most part it is a very controlled and quite predictable film, with everything feeling very deliberately placed, and the slow burn approach means that when the momentum picks up towards the end it is almost too little too late. A bigger issue is the crude mirroring of the main story with a horrifying parallel escalating deliberate racism strand that is clearly meant to reflect the unravelling of the suburban ideal but the two aspects sit together uncomfortably. The film seems to want to end with a powerful streak of dark humour but instead plays like an underpowered Joe Orton farce. Noah Jupe gives a delightful performance as the young son caught up in an adult nightmare, and Oscar Isaac does some lovely character work in his brief scenes, but overall Suburbicon is not as strong as one would have expected.
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