Suburbicon’s Uneasy Balancing Act

Huh. Maybe wacky crime and civil rights AREN’T the best combo.by Ned LannamannSuburbicon wants to be a lot of things. It wants to be a darkly comic domestic crime caper à la Fargo—not too surprising, as it comes from an unused Coen brothers script that director George Clooney and collaborator Grant Heslov have stripped for parts. It also wants to be a slightly histrionic Hitchcockian thriller with Oresteian overtones, as well as a skewering of 1950s white-bread suburban Americ