Office Christmas Party
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: December 9, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
42
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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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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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