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The Promotion
Directed by
Steven Conrad
R
2008
86m
[Comedy](/on-demand/category/comedy)
5.6
54%
28%
5.3
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Two assistant managers of a corporate grocery store vie for a coveted promotion.
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The Promotion Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
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.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
This is one of the more original movies of the year, and it's the rare film that's primarily about the workplace.
Seattle Times
Mark Rahner
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.
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
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.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
As bad as a severe case of the Mondays.
Austin Chronicle
Josh Rosenblatt
Total and forgettable and unforgivable blandness.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
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.
Washington Post
John Anderson
The portrayal of employment in America is too close for comfort. Or comedy...Not the stuff of lighthearted summer comedy.
Arizona Republic
Kerry Lengel
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.
Movie Retriever
Brian Tallerico
A confident and clever character study about the commonality of dreams from the boardroom to the bag boy.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The Promotion edges toward some pretty bleak stuff. Then it steps back and laughs, like an office slacker.
I.E. Weekly
Amy Nicholson
Steve Conrad's wry debut takes place in an urban Chicago grocery store, in which an intimate epic of manhood unfolds.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
There's something appealingly modest about The Promotion. It's a sweet, human movie.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Easily the worst movie I've seen so far this year.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
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.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Isn't as broad as its premise might suggest.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It's one of those off-balance movies that seems searching for the right tone.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Think of it as a polite, tightly muzzled Clerks.
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