With harrowing realism, The Company Men captures the raw, personal impact of the economic meltdown.

| Feb 7, 2018

The Company Men, aka "The Supposed Problems of Unsympathetic Rich People" or "Good Actors Stuck in a Mediocre Movie," tries to be timely, but it's as out of touch as Pat Buchanan.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Aug 15, 2013

A serious, schematic, well-acted film about adjusting to new lifestyles in a changing world...

| Mar 14, 2011

A chilling picture of corporate US, where loyalty to employees has been ousted by something called the bottom line.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 11, 2011

Wells, whose first feature this is, knows how to shape a movie but it still seems a little like a superior piece of television, adorned by a posse of very watchable stars.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 11, 2011

Deserves credit for being a well written and seriously conceived ensemble drama about white-collar America and the financial crash.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2011

The Company Men does a very fine job stressing the financial and personal abyss that can confront somebody whose year of devotion to a company can result in little more than hand shake.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2011

There will be plenty of good movies about the recession. This isn't one of them.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 10, 2011

Effectively, it's a history of the effects of deindustrialisation on working-class people, but in this case it's those in the white-collar sector who are the victims.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2011

It entertains, it engages, it leaves the brain empty after use.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 9, 2011

It turns out that middle-ranking executives and even some corporate board members have feelings. Who knew?

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 9, 2011

Wells knows how to extract the goods from a great cast, but it's in service of a somewhat mundane story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 7, 2011

Everything is pat, from the stereotyped characters (Kevin Costner plays the noble blue-collar worker) to the obvious plot turns.

| Feb 11, 2011

There's also little sense of what these characters were like before reality came crashing down on them.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 4, 2011

Yes, these former company men sigh a lot, occasionally raise their voices, get drunk and throw rocks at corporate HQ, but there's nothing that feels like real rage, nothing that even remotely approximates the spiritual decimation of a termination.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 4, 2011

This is a film without spark. The frustrations are real, but they are neither terribly entertaining nor enlightening.

| Original Score: C | Jan 28, 2011

If the recession-era movie sounds depressing, you just don't know what Hollywood is capable of.

| Original Score: 76/100 | Jan 23, 2011

"The Company Men" is a worthwhile outing that takes despair - but also resilience - seriously.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 21, 2011

The venerated American export that The Company Men most recalls isn't seagoing vessels -- it's hourlong dramatic television shows.

| Jan 21, 2011

The Company Men isn't THAT bad, but in a world with so many good movies, there's really not much to recommend here.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jan 21, 2011