Coen brothers

“Mandibles,” the director’s latest, turns down the morbidity, but replaces it with riffs on crime — the subversive kind that suburbanites warn their children of.

The film entertains with ease and even manages to tug on a heartstring or two throughout. At a breezy 100-minute runtime, it’s a perfect film to start the summer.

At the same time, though, “auteur theory” leads to a lot of films getting excluded from their respective director’s canon.

While entertaining in parts and visually appealing throughout, “Suburbicon” never becomes a thoroughly satisfying social satire.