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Orson, a compulsive bureaucrat who discovers a secret room his co-workers deny exists.
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| Slant MagazineWilliam RepassThe film goes to show that humanism and absurdism are often two expressions of the same face. |
| RogerEbert.comPeyton RobinsonCorner Office is a sometimes-funny satire stuffed with capitalist ennui, but it bites with dull teeth, failing to provide enough support for its sentiment to stick. |
| IndieWireDavid EhrlichIt’s only towards the very end, when the film’s satire and surrealism pull apart from each other like a party cracker, that the tension brewing in Orson’s department becomes compelling enough to justify the busywork of creating it. |
| IGNSiddhant AdlakhaCorner Office is a just-okay office satire saved by Jon Hamm playing the anti-Jon Hamm. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckCorner Office succeeds all too well in conveying the deadening effects of office work, practically serving as a testimonial to the pandemic-created trend of working from home. |
| VarietyPeter DebrugeLike head-in-the-clouds Orson, Back’s debut feature imagines more for itself than others can see, though only the latter has earned a shot at another job. |
| The PlaylistJason BaileyHamm makes himself look bland, which is no small accomplishment. But he’s also smothering much of what makes him an exciting actor. |
| User ReviewVoodoo123This was a fascinating surrealistic dramedy/mystery following the inner thoughts of a tightly wound but hard working employee of a nameless "authority corp". The only respite from the incompetency of his colleagues is in the 'corner office', a strange place seemingly only visible to him alone. Great cinematography cast and writing made for a gripping textured if a little mundane story. |
| User ReviewJLuis_001This attempt to capture the cold and detached essence of the corporate environment, with its lifeless ambiance, possessed certain tools for a more incisive satirical exploration, yet strangely enough, the director chose to envelop it in a dystopian veneer, rendering the film too mechanical to escape a parched and monotonous tone, that even its voice-over resource - intended to be humorous - becomes obsolete too quickly. Corner Office held the potential to extract more from its premise. However, unlike the other debut I've watched earlier, this director can't help the stagnation of its plot, the pacing becomes unwieldy, and it lacks full realization, losing a lot of vigor along the way and continually floundering, though it never quite falls apart in my opinion, but all of its sharp commentary falls flat, so in the end it leaves no lasting impression. |
| User ReviewEludiumQ36"Corner Office" (2022, 100-mins, PG-13, $0 boxoffice, D/Joachim Back) attracts you since Jon Hamm ("Orson") stars and he finds a room that he's told doesn't exist. This entire film is deception. First, Orson has a psychosis. The room objectively does not exist, it's a micro-utopia he's carved out in his mind, and it's not even a corner office. This should've been sold as a half-hour Twilight Zone episode. It has no business being feature length. The writers and director have little to no experience, and whatever there is, is in shorts. Jon Hamm is wasted in the lead, he's only attached to this for name recognition. There's so much dull, uninspired narration that you could treat this as an audiobook; seriously, there's practically no need for it to have visuals. I wasted my time so you don't have to, avoid. |
