Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 20, 2010

A clean S&M flick which only devotees of mental cruelty are likely to find satisfying. Office Space, Japanese Style!

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 1, 2007

a bravura performance in a memorable film.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 14, 2005

The best office comedy since Office Space.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 5, 2005

A mindboggling view into the heart of Japan

Full Review | Jul 30, 2005

One of the screen's most cuttingly funny looks at office life.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 24, 2005

... subtly sexual and erotic, despite the fact that every scene takes place in the office and there is not a single overt sexual act or word or gesture or reference.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 24, 2005

A shrewd but spiky satire about corporate bureaucracy and Japanese social stratification.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 3, 2005

Cool, incisive, funny but also strangely melancholy...connoisseurs of cinematic elegance should find it a brilliant jewel.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | May 21, 2005

The film is more ambiguous about its characters' desire than it needs to be.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2005

Testud, who appears to be fluent in the Japanese language, throws herself into this role and is wickedly funny as she flounders in the perverse environment

Full Review | Original Score: B | May 15, 2005

Moves swiftly and builds to a satisfying conclusion.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 24, 2005

Astutely directed by Alain Corneau.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 18, 2005

Harrowing and hilarious.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 18, 2005

Offers a mostly fascinating look at Japanese culture as seen through narrowly focused Western eyes.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Mar 18, 2005

Testud is nothing short of sublime.

Full Review | Mar 17, 2005

The movie is slight but in a way that makes it the opposite of pushy; it's companionably easy to laugh with.

Full Review | Mar 16, 2005

Strange and darkly funny culture-clash comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 25, 2005

From its snarky water-cooler comedy to its satisfying dabblings in feminism, the movie has a championship heart in Testud, an electric screen presence any audience will follow as willingly as the camera tracks her marvelously expressive features.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 17, 2005

A captivating tale of corporate degradation and eventual liberation.

Full Review | Feb 17, 2005