Corner Office

It's meant to be absurdist and satirical, but it just comes off one-note and facile. It may have worked as a short, but not a full length feature.

“Corner Office” is a sometimes-funny satire stuffed with capitalist ennui, but it bites with dull teeth.

The film goes to show that humanism and absurdism are often two expressions of the same face.

Because it’s so drab and one-note, “Corner Office” leaves the viewer with lots of time to contemplate the Hamm Conundrum

Back’s direction lacks the wry kick of Karlsson’s writing, while Kupper’s script compromises between satire and surrealism in a way that often neutralizes them both.

The film features a fascinating premise that unfortunately wears thin over the course of its feature-length running time.

Like its main character, Orson, this comedy is so "peculiar" that not everyone will understand it -- but that's absolutely the point, which makes it brilliant.

The film is making a comment on the trials and tribulations of working in an office setting, but the messaging is fuzzy.

Instead of committing to the sci-fi complexities it can venture towards, 'Corner Office' looks to pull the emergency break on it all. In the end, you are left with two conclusions that both feel incomplete.

Relying heavily on droll narration, the film’s amusing absurdist vibe produces some laughs but its one-note premise becomes tiresome well before it clocks out.