Live from Telluride: Matt Damon Shrinks Down In ‘Downsizing’

Mara Reinstein
Mara Movies
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1 min readSep 1, 2017

My hopes for Downsizing were higher than the Colorado mountains you see in the backdrop. Sad to report that Alexander Payne’s social satire — in which Matt Damon shrinks down to five inches in hopes of recalibrating his life — is an overambitious disappointment. Here’s my early reaction from the Telluride Film Festival.

Originally published at Mara Movies.

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Mara Reinstein
Mara Movies

Mara Reinstein is the film critic of Us Weekly. She is also a contributing writer for Parade, The Cut, Variety, Emmy and TV Guide. She lives in New York City.