Arizona<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is a dark horror\/comedy set after the housing collapse in 2009, an era that ought to have inspired more dark horror\/comedies than it has. It stars Rosemarie DeWitt as a divorced mom in an Arizona suburb who\u2019s about to lose her house while still working for the sleazy realtor (Seth Rogen) who sold it to her. A disgruntled homeowner played by Danny McBride confronts the boss, accidentally kills him, then takes DeWitt hostage because she witnessed it. Things escalate from there, as they do.<\/p>\n It starts out well, if you\u2019re into dark comedies where violent things happen, which I very much am. McBride isn\u2019t a terrifying psycho but a doofy suburban dad who\u2019s immediately in over his head with a woman who\u2019s smart and resourceful. He\u2019s got DeWitt tied up in his kitchen when his ex-wife walks in, and she\u2019s played by Kaitlin Olson \u2014 Dee on It\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia<\/em>. If you know that show, you know how funny (and mean) she can be when responding to a man\u2019s frustrating stupidity.<\/p>\n But the movie, directed by first-timer Jonathan Watson and written by Luke Del Tredici (TV’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine<\/em>), soon stops being the funny version of this story and just becomes the regular version, where McBride is a psycho with no compunction about killing, and that gets old fast. And it\u2019s a shame. DeWitt is perfect, the underlying premise of a man driven to desperation by the housing collapse is fine material, and a mostly abandoned housing tract where all the homes look the same and there\u2019s nothing for miles around is a great horror setting. And David Alan Grier as the local sheriff! But alas, it all falls apart. JUST LIKE THE HOUSING MARKET.<\/p>\n Arizona\u00a0is a dark horror\/comedy set after the housing collapse in 2009, an era that ought to have inspired more dark […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":10183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1381,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Grade: C+<\/span><\/h3>\n
1 hr., 25 min.; not rated but definitely in R territory<\/em><\/h5>\n
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