What a mistake. Extract is awful. Intended as a light, soft-porno-motivated film, it turned out to be crude and with little humor.

| Jan 17, 2018

| Original Score: C | Feb 18, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Has many promising ingredients, yet somehow none of them quite gel.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 23, 2010

Judge knows his game well enough, but too often the jokes feel like seasoning to a premise that is just slightly overdone.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 23, 2010

Judge really feels for these losers, making this shaggy, unfocused fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 25, 2010

There are so many good jokes packed in there.

Full Review | Sep 8, 2009

The entire cast, in fact, seems to be having fun, with Affleck and Koechner cheerfully stealing each one of their scenes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 4, 2009

There are some priceless character turns.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 4, 2009

It is a comedy that almost feels as if it needed to spend a little more time in the oven cooking, and at the end of the day the only additive I could smell coming off of it was the faint aroma of half-baked disappointment.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 4, 2009

It has all the ingredients for cult immortality and will likely live on long after this year's Oscar winners are forgotten.

| Original Score: B | Sep 4, 2009

These days, it appears to be a rare gift to do comedy in a way that comes across as smart, but never superior or willfully crass. Bateman has that talent to spare.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 4, 2009

Mike Judge's Extract -- modest, no big deal but very savvy -- is the funniest American comedy of the summer.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 4, 2009

The result doesn't seem as fresh as Office Space, but Judge still comes up with enough laughs to deserve our attention.

| Original Score: B | Sep 4, 2009

[Extract] resembles its titular foodstuffs: less a fully realized comedy than the distillation of one. The ingredients are there, and the recipe as well, but Judge evidently forgot that the whole dish still needed cooking.

| Sep 4, 2009

Extract nails the slow burn.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Sep 4, 2009

Bateman is simply great. He's reason enough alone to see Extract, but perhaps this is the best overall praise I can pay the film -- I can't possibly imagine anyone who liked Office Space NOT liking Extract.

| Sep 4, 2009

It's a vivid indictment of the way in which we all stumble along, yet the film never musters full-throated chagrin at our dull complacency.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 4, 2009

A "sympathy for the boss" comedy could conceivably work, but Judge has neglected to supply the laughs this time around.

Full Review | Sep 4, 2009