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88Fresh comic thinking spices up this smart cookie of a satire from director-writer Paul Weitz (About a Boy). He makes it sexually provocative and subversively hilarious.
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88Grace and Quaid imbue what could have been caricatures--with heart, intelligence and great comic timing.
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83The denouement of the movie is as preposterously happy as a children's fairy tale. But the moral is ageless.
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83A smart, savvy and satisfying Hollywood comedy.
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80Clever, original and terrifically witty.
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80The film is ultimately so extraordinary because it deals with something so ordinary: the desire to be better than we are, without knowing how to do it.
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80Genial, generous-spirited and unmistakably entertaining.
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80A smooth mixture of satire and sentiment that owes an obvious debt to "The Apartment," not to mention "Jerry Maguire."
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80Weitz's dialogue has sparkle and snap.
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75In Good Company is a rare species: a feel-good movie about big business. It's about a corporate culture that tries to be evil and fails.
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75Lively acting and timely humor are the main assets of this garden-variety comedy.
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75Engaging and enjoyable.
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75An amusing and unusually compassionate look at today's corporate culture.
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75A star is born in In Good Company, which showcases Topher Grace.
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75While Weitz's story is diverting, the performances cut deeper than the film.
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75A richly satisfying and darkly funny movie.
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75Gives Dennis Quaid one of his best screen showcases.
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75Has two strengths to recommend it: strong character interaction and a viciously accurate depiction of the modern corporate philosophy.
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75The comic spirit in this type of picture is wonderfully democratic, and so is the result.
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75A modest movie full of decent pop songs, three-dimensional humans and sharp observations about the male mind. It's also full of funny little ironies.
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70Weitz gives all his actors room to shine.
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70The guy (Grace) simply steals the show here. He's at once goofy and hammy, yet so lost, sad and sensitive you buy into his performance from the get go.
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70In Good Company lacks both the emotional sting and the bright pop-culture snap of "About a Boy," as well as Mr. Hornby's carefully cultivated irony, but it makes for an agreeable solo directing debut.
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70It manages to be funny and charming while capturing a lot of disturbing things about the way we live now.
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70Leaves a quiz show's quantity of unanswered questions. But it has the optimism and determination of a corporate whistle-blower. It makes us believe, for a moment, that it's possible to end-run the spirit of Enron.
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70An often lively comedy-drama that lands some nice jabs at the mega-corp ethos, In Good Company makes for pretty good company until going soft when it counts.
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70How, then, does "In Good Company" turn out for the better in spite of itself? No mystery at all. Whatever the fate of old media, or new media, for that matter, winning performances are here to stay.
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70Isn't scintillating, but it's sort of embraceably funny.
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70A missed opportunity, though as usual Quaid is dazzling.
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63Cheerful and easy to watch but surprisingly inept in the telling.
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63Weitz has done one remarkable thing in "Company" that doesn't strike you until later: He's given us a functional family that overcomes difficulties with patience and effort.
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60Pleasurable.
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60The scenario is stale but the actors are faultless.
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50The movie has some pleasures, but can be heartily recommended only to those who like their entertainments equally inoffensive and inconsequential.
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50Has its heart in the right place, and could have been an insightful rumination on corporate shortsightedness and mid-life obsolescence. Instead, it's another one of those Hollywood films whose feel for the workingman's life seems to come exclusively from other movies.
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50If the movie overall had the bitter brio of Malcolm McDowell's brief turn as Globecom guru Teddy K, a Franken-mogul stitched together from bits of Richard Branson, Barry Diller and Rupert Murdoch, it would be a pointed black comedy.
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50It's "Rain Man" with ageism substituted for autism.
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50Only when it wraps up all its loose ends with a feel-good sitcom conclusion does it finally reveal itself: It's an interesting failure rendered all the more disappointing for veering so close to success.
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50Good points aside, In Good Company is a bland, occasionally phlegmatic pastiche of cliches and dull encounters.
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40Grace and Johannson's courtship has all the heat of a wet wipe and, worse yet, leaves Quaid offscreen for long stretches.
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