“Arizona” (*1/2 out of four) was a joyless, oppressively weird melodrama set for no particular reason during the 2008 real-estate crisis in which a struggling realtor (Rosemary DeWitt) witnesses a murder at the office by a deranged lunatic (Danny McBride) and her life soon goes off the rails as she soon realizes the fragility and insanity of life in suburbia. Promising opening soon goes nowhere in this dismal fiasco which can’t decide whether it’s a satiric black comedy or a violent thriller. Yet another Coen Bros/Tarantino/David Lynch wannabe that doesn’t come close. Seth Rogen bizarrely has a cameo at the beginning as DeWitt’s boss who is killed.

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