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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 67ColliderChase HutchinsonColliderChase HutchinsonThough 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.
- 60The New York TimesTeo BugbeeThe New York TimesTeo BugbeeThis 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.
- 50Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonWriter-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.
- 42The A.V. ClubMark KeizerThe A.V. ClubMark KeizerThe 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.
- 40TheWrapFran HoepfnerTheWrapFran HoepfnerIt 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.
- 38RogerEbert.comTomris LafflyRogerEbert.comTomris LafflyEven with an embarrassingly rich cast, The Estate chokes on its own airlessness.
- 30Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshLos Angeles TimesKatie WalshIt’s not funny, it’s not satirical, and it’s not worth your time, or Toni Collette’s
- 30Screen RantFerdosa AbdiScreen RantFerdosa AbdiThis is a terribly unfunny venture, which fails at the film’s only job.
- 29Paste MagazineJesse HassengerPaste MagazineJesse HassengerWithout any actual classicism to accompany Craig’s outdated notions of outrageousness, the movie quickly turns fustier than its edgy posturing lets on.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!