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  • 2024
  • Greenwich Entertainment
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  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 38 m

Summary Isolated on a seaside estate, an entitled journalist (Billy Magnussen) and his socialite wife (Sarah Gadon) take in a mysterious grifter as a private cook (Peter Sarsgaard). When a plague descends on the island, the wily cook rouses his fellow staff to rebel and take over the mansion. Their employer suspects the cook’s coup is part of a ...

Directed By: Joseph Schuman, Austin Stark

Written By: Joseph Schuman, Austin Stark

In Theaters Now
  • 2024
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2024
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 38 m

Coup!

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
61
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Summary Isolated on a seaside estate, an entitled journalist (Billy Magnussen) and his socialite wife (Sarah Gadon) take in a mysterious grifter as a private cook (Peter Sarsgaard). When a plague descends on the island, the wily cook rouses his fellow staff to rebel and take over the mansion. Their employer suspects the cook’s coup is part of a ...

Directed By: Joseph Schuman, Austin Stark

Written By: Joseph Schuman, Austin Stark

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Metascore
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80
Aug 1, 2024
Although Coup! has a small cast and unfolds mostly in a secluded mansion during the 1918 influenza pandemic, it packs a lot of flavor, suspense and droll comedy into its slim 97-minute running time, making it fun enough to deserve an exclamation point in its title.
By Leslie Felperin FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 1, 2024
This is quick, nippy entertainment that raises plenty of sociopolitical talking points without digging too deep into any of them.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 1, 2024
It’s a dark comedy about class warfare, government overreach and infectious disease. It’s a lot more fun than that sounds.
By Bill Goodykoontz FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 1, 2024
The film is fun, broad and exuberant, like a primetime Marxist sitcom, although it does feel indebted to a number of recent, better films around the same theme.
By Xan Brooks FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 2, 2024
Although the milieu of “Coup!” speaks allegorically to the pandemic of our own century, it does so softly; the movie is ultimately more a tale of class warfare than public health.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
42
Aug 1, 2024
Coup! isn’t objectionable for its politics, it’s objectionable for trying to deny them. Unless its politics are just that muddled, and then Stark and Schuman have no idea at all how to express whatever it is they’re trying to say.
By Christian Blauvelt FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 1, 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.
By Natalia Winkelman FULL REVIEW

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Aug 3, 2024
A film that had the makings of greatness but just could not stick the landing. I didn't understand motivations until far too late and by then I didn't care.
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Production Company Entertainment 360, Coup! Media, Film Constellation, HappyBad Bungalow, Hemlock Circle Productions, Howl, Phiphen Pictures
Release Date Aug 2, 2024
Duration 1 h 38 m
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Website https://greenwichentertainment.com/film/coup/
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