Particularly when the package is as cram-packed with nourishment as Downsizing, Alexander Payne’s gorgeous, giddy parable of a modern-day Lilliput. Matt Damon stars as Paul Safranek, an overstretched man in an overstretched world, working as an occupational therapist down at Omaha Steaks and still living in the house where he was born. With the excellent Downsizing, Payne has simply gone that extra mile. Afterwards the nurses return to theatre and lift the clients from their beds aboard small steel spatulas. Meanwhile, out in Leisureland, Paul has befriended the rascally Dusan, his playboy upstairs neighbour, played with reliable zeal by the great Christoph Waltz.

Source: The Guardian August 30, 2017 11:29 UTC