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23 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversA ragtag charmer. You will laugh.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThe result is a winning comedy.
- 70Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternThe vision of office work that's offered up by Haiku Tunnel is as chilling as it is funny.
- 58Portland OregonianShawn LevyPortland OregonianShawn LevyPleasant and light and builds nicely within its own self-circumscribed intent.
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonA funny movie, but like "Josh" himself, it's too self-absorbed, and maybe too nice, for its own good.
- 50USA TodayMike ClarkUSA TodayMike ClarkAlready 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."
- 50New Times (L.A.)Andy KleinNew Times (L.A.)Andy KleinAfter 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.
- 40L.A. WeeklyPaul MalcolmL.A. WeeklyPaul MalcolmThe 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.
- 20The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenCan 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.