Melanie Lynskey and Nelsan Ellis play a mixed-race couple whose relocation from New York City to small-town Washington State tests the harmony of their family dynamic. By David Rooney Chief Film ...

Little Boxes opens with slow-motion shots of a suburban town, the camera slowly zooming in on immaculately manicured lawns and fancy houses while a foreboding drone hums quietly on the soundtrack.

With its picket-fence sameness and routine tedium making it a hot bed for deep-rooted repression — at least as depicted in many a film — the horrors of suburbia have been captured in virtually every ...