Downsizing US Release Date

Alexander Payne's latest, which opened the Venice Film Festival, stars Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig as a husband and wife who shrink themselves in order to simplify their lives.

Damon stars as a man who shrinks down to the height of five inches in Payne’s sci-fi comedy, a winningly inventive tale of masculinity in crisis.

Weird and wonderful, zigging where it should zag and zagging where it should zig, this wildly imaginative flight of fancy strikes an admirably poised balance between whimsy, scr...

Alexander Payne's science-fiction comedy about humans who get miniaturized to save the planet (and live like royalty) is that rare thing: a ticklish and resonant crowd-pleaser f...

With startling performances and special effects, director Alexander Payne's dystopian sci-fi satire "brims over with the pleasures of the unexpected"

Downsizing wins with deadpan, whimsical satire.

Venice 2017: Alexander Payne’s sci-fi comedy examines the human condition in both the macro and the micro.

But heady, bold statements about humankind are both the film’s best aspect and its chief flaw: There are just so many of them.

Downsizing is arguably the most flawed of Payne’s work, but despite its apocalyptic overtones, it’s also his most optimistic.

Matt Damon's shrinking comedy is big on ideas.

Features thorny questions and one terrific performance.

It starts out as a movie about a technological change that alters the fabric of the world, and it ends up with Matt Damon.

Alexander Payne thinks too small with his Matt Damon shrinking comedy Downsizing.

However nice it is to see Alexander Payne stretching his skills with this sprawling story and special-effects work, the filmmaker might have benefited by taking a downsizing hin...

Downsizing is an ambitious movie about the value of modesty, and its faults are proportionate to its insights. I sort of wish it felt like a bigger deal, but maybe that’s my pro...

Downsizing isn’t bad but it’s a wasted opportunity.

Alexander Payne’s comedy scales up a scheme to save the planet and get rich in the process.

Alexander Payne’s new sci-fi comedy, about a near future in which humans can opt to “go small,” squanders its big ideas in record time.

“Downsizing” has the vision to shrink Matt Damon, but not to dare a new POV.

Alexander Payne's "Downsizing" starts with an intriguing "What if?...", the launch pad of all good sci-fi stories, and very quickly devolves into a bland story about a nondescri...

Payne’s defenders might call his often acidic touch Swiftian, though it comes off more toothlessly noncommittal.