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- 2022
- R
- Dutch FilmWorks (DFW)
- 1 h 36 m
- 2022
- R
- Dutch FilmWorks (DFW)
- 1 h 36 m
Summary Two sisters attempt to win over their terminally ill, difficult-to-please Aunt in hopes of becoming the beneficiaries of her wealthy estate, only to find the rest of their greedy family members have the same idea.
Directed By: Dean Craig
Written By: Dean Craig
- 2022
- R
- Dutch FilmWorks (DFW)
- 1 h 36 m
- 2022
- R
- Dutch FilmWorks (DFW)
- 1 h 36 m
The Estate
37
4.7
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Summary Two sisters attempt to win over their terminally ill, difficult-to-please Aunt in hopes of becoming the beneficiaries of her wealthy estate, only to find the rest of their greedy family members have the same idea.
Directed By: Dean Craig
Written By: Dean Craig
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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10% Positive
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40% Mixed
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4 Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
37
10% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
40% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
50% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Though 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.
Writer-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.
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Based on 6 User Ratings
4.7
17% Positive
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The 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.
Even with an embarrassingly rich cast, The Estate chokes on its own airlessness.
This is a terribly unfunny venture, which fails at the film’s only job.
Without any actual classicism to accompany Craig’s outdated notions of outrageousness, the movie quickly turns fustier than its edgy posturing lets on.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!
It takes truly terrible script to make such charming and accomplished comedic actors seems so wooden and lifeless.
