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- 2023
- PG-13
- EO Media Distribution
- 1 h 41 m
- 2023
- PG-13
- EO Media Distribution
- 1 h 41 m
Summary Orson (Jon Hamm), a corporate drone trying to move up in his newly acquired entry-level job, discovers a secret room in his drab, soul-crushing office building; a discovery that causes problems with his new colleagues.
Directed By: Joachim Back
Written By: Ted Kupper, Jonas Karlsson
- 2023
- PG-13
- EO Media Distribution
- 1 h 41 m
- 2023
- PG-13
- EO Media Distribution
- 1 h 41 m
Corner Office
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5.5
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Summary Orson (Jon Hamm), a corporate drone trying to move up in his newly acquired entry-level job, discovers a secret room in his drab, soul-crushing office building; a discovery that causes problems with his new colleagues.
Directed By: Joachim Back
Written By: Ted Kupper, Jonas Karlsson
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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29% Positive
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57% Mixed
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14% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
47
29% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
57% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
14% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
The film goes to show that humanism and absurdism are often two expressions of the same face.
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.
User Score
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Based on 15 User Ratings
5.5
40% Positive
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47% Mixed
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13% Negative
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 User Ratings
5.5
40% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
47% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
13% Negative
2 Ratings
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For me this film is by far THE best metaphor for what its like being Autistic in a workplace that I’ve ever seen.
In a place where uniformity is encouraged(ie silently demanded) anything that makes you stand out makes you a target, ESPECIALLY if you actually work while all the Neurotypicals around you have an unspoken agreement to only work so hard as to not upset the system. God help you if you have a unique(“odd”) means of accomplishing your work efficiently and better than everyone because you will become the enemy of everyone around you.
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This 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.
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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.
Hamm makes himself look bland, which is no small accomplishment. But he’s also smothering much of what makes him an exciting actor.
It starts out interesting with the eerie tone and psychological aspect of it and it feels like one of the mindf*ck movies, but the ending is very basic and boring and makes you feel why did you watch it even. If they would have made the ending more interesting it would be a good movie.
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This 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.
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"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.
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