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Method, The
Palm Pictures

Method, The reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 68 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
8.3 out of 10
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Eduardo Noriega, Najwa Nimri, Eduard Fernández, Pablo Echarri, Ernesto Alterio, Natalia Verbeke, Adriana Ozores, and Carmelo Gómez

A mysterious corporation has a vacancy and seven eager businessmen and women are called upon at the same time to be interviewed for the position. They are shown into a room by the firm’s offbeat secretary where they are informed that they shall all partake in a bizarre test known as the Grönholm Method. They are also told that one of the seven applicants is in fact the interviewer, who shall remain anonymous to the other six. Throughout a series of uncanny questions, what-if scenarios and increasingly bizarre tests, the applicants are dismissed one by one. The tension increases as people begin to take matters personally, and things get out of hand as the competition becomes more intense. (Palm Pictures)


GENRE(S): Drama  
WRITTEN BY: Jordi Galcerán (play)
Mateo Gil
Marcelo Piñeyro
 
DIRECTED BY: Marcelo Piñeyro  
RELEASE DATE: Theatrical: July 6, 2007 
RUNNING TIME: 115 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: Argentina / Spain / Italy 
LANGUAGE(S): French / English / Spanish 

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75
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The devil is in the degrees. Pineyro and Ferrer have a fine old time teasing the viewer with the ongoing search for the corporate mole.
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70
The New York Times Matt Zoller Seitz
The sum total of this gamesmanship is a suspenseful, funny film that touches on a corporation’s responsibility to society, the price of ambition, the persistence of workplace sexism, the destructive competition between women, and why it’s a good idea to take an extra shirt to your next interview.
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70
Variety Robert Koehler
Smartly and seamlessly blending a cast of talented Argentine and Spanish thesps, Pineyro seems to be testing how much cinema he can derive from a restricted space.
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70
Village Voice Nathan Lee
Too clever by half, the plot contrivances deliver flippant satisfactions, and the agile performances keep the twists compelling, if less than credible.
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63
Boston Globe Wesley Morris
The movie doesn't trust that an illuminating comedy of pathetic people can be entertaining for long, so it sprinkles some hormones on the proceedings.
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