Office Reviews
After a while the overpacked plot begins to feel like an afternoon meeting that won't end.
| Dec 3, 2015
For his first official foray into the genre, To brings his usual knack for cutting movement and stunningly composing figures against space to a world of pure stylization.
| Original Score: B+ | Sep 24, 2015
Johnnie To and Sylvia Chang's stage-to-screen musical is a dazzling entertainment set against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crisis.
| Sep 24, 2015
Those expecting one of To's manic comedies will instead be met with arguably his most dour drama.
| Sep 18, 2015
A must-see for anyone looking for a thoughtful, and genuinely spectacular new musical.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 18, 2015
If Mr. To were an American, his name would fall from lips as easily as Martin Scorsese's, another artist alive to cinema's past as well as its present.
| Sep 17, 2015
Office is undermined by a simplistic screenplay lacking the nuances and frisson one expects of a cutting-edge satire of a capitalist world propelled by graft and greed.
| Sep 16, 2015
It's handsome, elegantly executed, a little muffled; only Tang, as the lonely accountant, and Chan, as the frantic hustler, give the story some emotional intensity and weight.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 16, 2015
The actors do their own singing, which may have limited Lu somewhat-for the most part, the songs can sound like temp tracks left over from an abandoned studio session, with synth guitars and skeletal melodies.
| Sep 14, 2015