Anchored by its leads, “Coup!” is a tasty morsel of social commentary about problems that continue to plague our world.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 2, 2024

A tiresome self-satisfied tone that is made a fair bit more tolerable by Sarsgaard’s juicy lead performance.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 2, 2024

A dark comedy about class warfare, government overreach and infectious disease. It’s a lot more fun than that sounds.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 2, 2024

This implication that virility trumps effeteness is, amid an otherwise straightforward comedy, an uncomfortably regressive way to tell the story of how people vie for power in hard times.

| Aug 1, 2024

The film has little to add on the subject of the interplay of politics and infectious disease, then or now.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 30, 2024

Fleet and frisky at just 97 minutes, tidily but not ostentatiously crafted, and in thrall to the pleasurably low-stakes sport of watching one scoundrel outwit another.

| Sep 16, 2023

This satirical work is hardly profound or subtle about the parallels with the present-day class conflict, but it wears its screw-the-rich subtext with insouciant breeziness.

| Sep 14, 2023

With “Coup!” so reluctant to own anything, it’s hard to imagine many viewers are going to buy what it has to say.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 8, 2023

It is bright and assured and thoroughly enjoyable in the moment, even if its line of satire feels glib and its anger ever so slightly concocted...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 8, 2023