Office Christmas Party
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: December 9, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
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5
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20
Negative:
10
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattDec 7, 2016
Aniston has a great time as the vampy, Krav Maga-ing Bitch Who Stole Christmas, and Miller’s willful idiocy is weirdly endearing. Read full review
70
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerDec 8, 2016
Sometimes the movie, directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck, is too obviously just a framework for its stars to deploy goofy schtick, but the overall package is naughty, inappropriate fun. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshDec 8, 2016
The greatest strength of Office Christmas Party is its casting. If you’ve got fabulous weirdos Kate McKinnon and T.J. Miller in lead roles, there are bound to be more than enough laughs. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneKatie WalshDec 8, 2016
Office Christmas Party, which delights in a grotesque carnival of the worst behavior, and still has its heart firmly in the right place. Read full review
63
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanDec 8, 2016
The film’s success is due to the twinkly commitment of the large and talented cast. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawDec 8, 2016
It’s a film destined for iTunes rental status, but kept from flatlining with a pretty dependable string of stupid yet funny one-liners, and a nice turn from TJ Miller as Aniston’s slacker brother. Read full review
60
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoDec 7, 2016
Office Christmas Party is a naughty Xmas comedy stuffed with enough ho-ho-hos and ha-ha-has to corrupt this holiday season. Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeyDec 7, 2016
In the annual way of these things, Office Christmas Party is something you might regret not dropping in on, but you could cut your losses after an hour or so, and only miss sordid carnage and a sore head. Read full review
60
Total FilmJosh WinningDec 7, 2016
McKinnon, Aniston and Jillian Bell's smiley pimp run away with the show, and as the party wears on, it becomes increasingly, thrillingly surreal. Read full review
58
ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerDec 8, 2016
It feels like a missed opportunity overall, a movie that’s just funny enough often enough to make you wish that more of it fit together. Read full review
50
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallDec 10, 2016
Office Christmas Party contains enough lunacy from McKinnon, Bell and Vanessa Bayer to nearly recommend, then enough lame plot threads, Rob Corddry and Olivia Munn to reconsider. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaDec 9, 2016
Alas, Office Christmas Party serves as yet another reminder that allowing your cast to madly improvise (as evident with an unnecessary end-credits blooper reel) instead of actually providing a coherent script with a scintilla of logic often leads to a decline in sustained laughter. Read full review
50
The PlaylistWill AshtonDec 8, 2016
Sure, there are some generally reliable players (T.J. Miller, Jason Bateman, Kate McKinnon), which keeps things from getting deathly dull, but the newest film from directors Josh Gordon and Will Speck (“Blades of Glory”) is mostly uninspired and bland. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsAriel ScottiDec 8, 2016
For a movie that was advertised as the wildest bash of the year, Office Christmas Party has a few too many plotlines and not enough actual debauchery. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzDec 8, 2016
There are some funny bits, to be sure. You can’t bring this bunch together without a few hits among the misses. But despite McKinnon’s best efforts, it’s just not enough. This is one Office Christmas Party you can skip. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Dec 7, 2016
Assembling a whole comedy festival’s worth of very funny people isn’t a foolproof recipe for hilarity, but it should assure at least a decent number of laughs. Whether Office Christmas Party clears that very low bar depends on how generous you want to be — in this season of generosity — with the definition of “decent number” and “laughs.” Read full review
50
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldDec 7, 2016
It’s fun to spend time with these performers, but you wish they were invited to a better party. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubDec 7, 2016
Too many moments elicit a polite half chuckle, when the screenwriters are trying for uproarious laughter. But it benefits from an excellent cast, who seem to be all in. And whenever there’s a stretch of extended mediocrity, it’s almost always saved by an unexpected moment of politically incorrect inspiration. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperDec 7, 2016
The individual parts never come close to fully meshing into a quality team effort. Read full review
50
Screen DailyJohn HazeltonDec 7, 2016
For all its attempts at inventive excess – and at slightly more sophisticated humour - this scattershot gross-out comedy ends up producing chuckles rather than real laughs. Read full review
40
Time OutGuy LodgeDec 8, 2016
Jennifer Aniston delivers the saltiest lines as the company’s ruthlessly humorless CEO, though it’s a coal-lump of a part. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenDec 7, 2016
Do not count on Office Christmas Party to deliver a contact high. Yes, there are laughs to be had, but not the off-the-charts merriment promised by the title and the film’s expert cast of comic actors. Read full review
40
EmpireSimon CrookDec 7, 2016
In a year of Bad Moms, Bad Santas and Bad Neighbours, this is, essentially, Bad Employees: another irresponsible-adults comedy, another great cast, and another erratic script. Catch it for McKinnon. Read full review
40
VarietyPeter DebrugeDec 7, 2016
Turn them loose, and this cast has nearly endless potential to be outrageous, and yet, the script...keeps interrupting the festivities with unnecessary details about whether the company will even be around tomorrow. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenDec 7, 2016
It’s a frenetic grab bag of strained shtick, however expertly delivered by ace comic performers. Read full review
38
St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonDec 8, 2016
This party is a dud. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTom RussoDec 8, 2016
This last angle had us thinking back to “Risky Business,” as did the Chicago setting and the reveling gone off the rails. Here, though, there’s no edge to the wildness, nothing memorable. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreDec 8, 2016
A cluttered, ham-fisted farce that pulls its punches so often that it never pops, a meandering mess that never gets up to the speed one needs to achieve “romp.” Read full review
38
Slant MagazineKenji FujishimaDec 7, 2016
Josh Gordon and Will Speck's Office Christmas Party generally smacks of trying too hard to earn its laughs. Read full review
33
IndieWireDavid EhrlichDec 7, 2016
Like any office Christmas party you’ve ever been forced to attend, it kind of feels a little bit too much like work to be fun, and — like any office Christmas party you’ve ever been forced to attend — it’s just a tiny bit too diverting for you to storm out before the whole thing crawls to its sad conclusion. Read full review
30
Village VoiceMelissa AndersonDec 10, 2016
As dull and impersonal as a sheaf of open-enrollment insurance forms, Office Christmas Party brings together — and underutilizes — several funny performers from TV shows (Silicon Valley, Veep, SNL) that pinpoint what this dim comedy does not: the specifics of workplace environments and their particular pathologies and joys. Read full review
30
ScreenCrushMatt SingerDec 7, 2016
With a cast this good and this likable, it’s hard to completely hate Office Christmas Party. Still, with a cast this good, it’s also hard to believe how consistently dull the film is. Read full review
30
TheWrapRobert AbeleDec 7, 2016
A busy but witless and stale comedy that rehashes every raunchy gag we expect from R-rated comedies, it also wears its hackneyed sentimentality and cookie-cutter underdog story beats as proudly as adhesive nametags. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)John SemleyDec 8, 2016
Office Christmas Party is a hopeless muddle. A joyless, laughless – that’s right, not even one laugh – affair that proves how indulgent and (worse) boring ensemble comedies such as this become when the ensemble has next to no natural chemistry and even less of a script to riff off of. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter TraversDec 8, 2016
This pooped party brings you down from all the jokes that don't land and the flop sweat pouring off good actors whose forced cheer is exhausting. Read full review
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