The film goes to show that humanism and absurdism are often two expressions of the same face.
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RogerEbert.comPeyton Robinson
RogerEbert.comPeyton Robinson
Corner 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.
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IGNSiddhant Adlakha
IGNSiddhant Adlakha
Corner Office is a just-okay office satire saved by Jon Hamm playing the anti-Jon Hamm.
It’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.
Corner 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.
Like 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.