'Downsizing' imagines what might happen if, as a solution to over-population, Norwegian scientists discover how to shrink humans to five inches tall and propose a 200-year global transition from big ...

Little people. Big ideas. Massive misfire. Alexander Payne’s “Downsizing” is one of the year’s biggest head-scratchers. The misanthropic director behind “Election” and “Sideways” tells a story about ...

“Downsizing” is a bit too big for its britches – a movie that wrestles with several provocative themes, then seemingly draws back from them to pursue more conventional ones. Director Alexander Payne ...

Decreasing your carbon footprint is one thing. Shrinking yourself to sub-Barbie size to do so is another. “Downsizing” is a big-concept story about literal tiny people, courtesy of Alexander Payne, a ...

It's hard to say what's better about the first half of Alexander Payne's wonderfully weird — or is it weirdly wonderful? — "Downsizing": the audacity of its premise, or the delicious skill with which ...

You know how Hollywood doesn’t make original movies anymore? Well, “Downsizing” is here to fix that. Weird and wonderful, zigging where it should zag, this wildly imaginative flight of fancy balances ...

Matt Damon and Jason Sudeikis in "Downsizing." (Photo provided to MLive.com by Paramount Pictures) By John Serba | [email protected] Decreasing your carbon footprint is one thing. Shrinking yourself to ...