Bartleby
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  1. RachelJ.
    Aug 14, 2003
    9
    Tons of wacky and absurd fun that is sure to incite a cult audience to make a stage play or some other form of worship very soon.

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48 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 19 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 19
  3. Negative: 5 out of 19
  1. Slate
    Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    80
    The neat thing about Jonathan Parker's modern-day Bartleby (Outsider Pictures) is that it brings out all the vaudeville undercurrents in Melville's dark tale and turns it into a surreal tragi-sitcom for our own era.
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  2. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Ron Wells
    40
    Oh, boy. This is not unlike watching one of the movies Jerry Lewis made after that concentration camp/clown epic nearly destroyed his career and his mind.
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  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Joe Leydon
    60
    Although closer in tone to "Office Space" than Herman Melville, Jonathan Parker's absurdist update of Bartleby is surprisingly faithful to the spirit, if not the letter, of the "Moby-Dick" author's 1853 novella about an under-achieving Wall Street copy clerk.
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