The closer you look at Arizona, the less funny and escapist it becomes, and I'm certain that's by design. The exercise doesn't always work, but when it does, it can sting.

| Jun 23, 2020

Arizona is a dark comedy thriller that works on both sides of the coin, with the dark comedy working well and the thriller part being decent.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 11, 2020

Often grotesque and thoroughly witless.

| Feb 21, 2019

Arizona may be lacking in originality, but it is thrilling, funny, silly and bloody, and I enjoyed every minute of it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 21, 2018

The movie soon stops being the funny version of this story and just becomes the regular version, where McBride is a psycho with no compunction about killing, and that gets old fast.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 6, 2018

The zany turn the film takes only works in part, though, and that's largely due to the performance by McBride who continually ramps up Sonny's psychosis.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 6, 2018

Arizona creates a sense of isolated, store bought Americana that represented safety for many of its country's citizens during the mid-aughts.

| Aug 30, 2018

It's a showcase for McBride's knack for making character studies out of blustering macho madness.

| Aug 29, 2018

It's stupid, exploits the housing crisis as fodder for violent lunacy, and murders with impunity. But I did have fun.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 28, 2018

Although... some of the dialogues referring to the real estate market and North American idiosyncrasies are exceptional, they are not enough to maintain neither the interest nor the benevolence of the audience. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 27, 2018

Takes a feeble premise and runs it into the ground. One has the feeling that theatres showing it will be as empty as the failed housing development where it's set.

| Original Score: D | Aug 25, 2018

A film that's neither funny nor exciting, although it often seems to be straining to be one or the other.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 24, 2018

When it comes to something worthwhile to say, the bleakly black and blood-red comedy Arizona turns out to be as barren and deserted as its desolate suburban landscape.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 24, 2018

A fine state deserves better than this lackluster thriller that fails both as a horror-comedy and as a suburban satire.

| Aug 24, 2018

Arizona might have worked better as a smart-ass social commentary if its tsk-tsking of consumerist myopia wasn't so consistently on the nose and its plot didn't swiftly devolve into slasher movie cliches.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 24, 2018

The pressure was on first time director Watson to let McBride loose. It's a shame. I'm not suggesting that he couldn't carry a picture, but here McBride is a terribly one-note-a lunatic with zero redeeming qualities to shape him.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 24, 2018

Arizona is a madcap, nasty delight, directed with swift efficiency by Jonathan Watson in a directorial debut.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 24, 2018

This 85-minute, "Ten Little Indian"-style comedy-horror mash-up is basically a cameo-studded muddle that may have looked good on paper, but movie screens aren't made of paper.

| Original Score: D+ | Aug 24, 2018

[The movie] wants to be a serious thriller and a demented comedy, but it never achieves a good balance between the two.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 24, 2018

Severely wasting the talents of Rosemary DeWitt, who really, really deserves better material, Arizona is as arid and barren as the state that provides its title.

| Aug 24, 2018