| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 24, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: B | Oct 18, 2008

The Promotion may not be much, and you get to know that supermarket uncomfortably well by the end of the 85 minutes. But as I say: He's an interesting writer.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 18, 2008

The Promotion works as a comedy because, in the depths of our dark hearts, we enjoy seeing the woes that beset our comic antagonists.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 27, 2008

This is one of the more original movies of the year, and it's the rare film that's primarily about the workplace.

Full Review | Jun 16, 2008

The directorial debut of Pursuit of Happyness writer Steve Conrad, The Promotion carries a deadpan corporate-absurd whiff of Office Space but never quite scans.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 13, 2008

The strangely paced drama/comedy never finds much of a groove. Elements of conventional madcap comedy butt against more indie-ready scenes of relationship dysfunction, and the end result is more frustrating than interesting.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 13, 2008

As bad as a severe case of the Mondays.

| Original Score: D | Jun 13, 2008

Total and forgettable and unforgivable blandness.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 13, 2008

The Promotion uses the structure of a workplace comedy to pose gentle moral and ethical questions about treating people right (or wrong), about honor and ambition, truth-telling and back-stabbing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 12, 2008

The portrayal of employment in America is too close for comfort. Or comedy...Not the stuff of lighthearted summer comedy.

| Jun 12, 2008

As a subtle expression of masculine angst, it's the timid flipside of Fight Club. As a gentle critique of the American dream's descent into empty consumerism, it's a less cutesy, less feminist Little Miss Sunshine.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 12, 2008

A confident and clever character study about the commonality of dreams from the boardroom to the bag boy.

| Jun 8, 2008

The Promotion edges toward some pretty bleak stuff. Then it steps back and laughs, like an office slacker.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 6, 2008

Steve Conrad's wry debut takes place in an urban Chicago grocery store, in which an intimate epic of manhood unfolds.

| Original Score: A | Jun 6, 2008

There's something appealingly modest about The Promotion. It's a sweet, human movie.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 6, 2008

Easily the worst movie I've seen so far this year.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jun 6, 2008

There's still a lot to like here, but ultimately the movie reflects its hapless hero a little too well. While we're constantly rooting for it to succeed, the finish line seems forever out of reach.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 6, 2008

Isn't as broad as its premise might suggest.

| Jun 6, 2008