NEW YORK MOVIE JOURNAL (Sept.-Oct. 2019)

[Chris Knipp]

GREENER GRASS (Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe 2019). Surreal comedy focused on 95% super bland white suburban people who all wear pastels, adults wear braces, and everyone drives around in golf carts. Many odd, ludicrous details, and people-pleasing is highlighted early when a woman gives her baby to her friend in the opening scene after she admires it. But I agree with Kristen Yoonsoo Kim on Letterboxd, who wrote, "this ... offended me. feels like the idea of ​​a fun and wacky time for someone who has never seen a movie before but loves SNL skits?" Pace is often off and story is a weak element. But given the elaborate strangeness, cult status is likely. Watched on a screener prior to Oct. 18, 2019 release. Ultimate Metascore 69 [when this was written it was 77%%].