There are a few weak spots -- the ending could have used some fine tuning -- but otherwise its a solid sleeper: unassuming, unexpected and wholly entertaining.
58
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
Pleasant and light and builds nicely within its own self-circumscribed intent.
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
A funny movie, but like "Josh" himself, it's too self-absorbed, and maybe too nice, for its own good.
50
USA TodayMike Clark
USA TodayMike Clark
Already too long. It makes you want to start moving globs of dirt to tunnel out of the theater as the movie ends with the famous theme to "The Great Escape."
After a few very funny early sequences, tricked up with grotesque, surreal editing and camerawork, the movie gets bogged down a bit during the first third.
40
L.A. WeeklyPaul Malcolm
L.A. WeeklyPaul Malcolm
The Kornbluths don't offer much visual style -- the film is as flat and sterile as its corporate environs -- but they build an excruciating tension from Kornbluth's confounding inability to lick a few stamps.
Can a feature-length movie be built on minutiae like jammed copying machines, unsent business letters and orientation programs for new employees? This innocuous wisp of a film, as weighty as a scrap of fax paper caught in an updraft, suggests that the answer is no.