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The Method (2005)

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Reviews Counted: 17 Fresh: 12  Rotten:5 Average Rating: 6.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Theatrical Release: Jun 6, 2007 Limited
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A mysterious corporation has a vacancy job in offer, and seven eager businessmen are called upon at the same time to be interviewed for the position. They are shown into a room by the firm’s offbeat secretary (Natalia Verbeke), where they are informed that they shall all partake in a bizarre... [More]
A mysterious corporation has a vacancy job in offer, and seven eager businessmen are called upon at the same time to be interviewed for the position. They are shown into a room by the firm’s offbeat secretary (Natalia Verbeke), where they are informed that they shall all partake in a bizarre test known as the Grönholm Method. They are also told that one of the seven applicants is in fact the interviewer, who shall remain anonymous to the other six. Throughout a series of uncanny questions, what-if scenarios and increasingly bizarre tests, the applicants are dismissed one by one. The tension increases as people begin to take matters personally, and things get carried out of hand as competition becomes sharper to win the position. --© Palm Pictures [Less]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Eduardo Noriega, Najwa Nimri, Eduard Fernandez, Pablo Echarri, Adriana Ozores

Director: Marcelo Pineyro
Screenwriter: Mateo Gil, Marcelo Pineyro

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09/11/07 03:15 AM
John P. McCarthy
Boxoffice Magazine
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Based on a stage play by Jordi Galcerán, The Method delivers a darkly comic take on corporate competitiveness.

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08/18/07 08:55 AM
Beth Accomando
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Undoubtedly some enterprising American film company will either undertake a remake or will pitch it as a new reality show ...

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07/14/07 10:51 AM
Ted Murphy
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The movie doesn't trust that an illuminating comedy of pathetic people can be entertaining for long, so it sprinkles some hormones on the proceedings.

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07/13/07 01:49 PM
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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The film loses some of its sting once the race narrows, but its outcome and the politically, emotionally astute fade-out are suitably devastating.

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07/12/07 03:15 AM
Mark Holcomb
Time Out
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the hollowness of it all becomes deafening

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07/08/07 10:27 AM
Chris Barsanti
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...May not shed any new light on corporate avarice or mendacity, but it gives a stronger. cast the opportunity to play a delicate game of psychological cat-and-mouse with the viewer.

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07/06/07 02:12 PM
Maitland McDonagh
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The Method is a funny film that touches on a corporation’s responsibility to society, the price of ambition and the persistence of workplace sexism.

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07/06/07 11:59 AM
Matt Zoller Seitz
New York Times
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Smartly and seamlessly blending a cast of talented Argentine and Spanish thesps, Pineyro seems to be testing how much cinema he can derive from a restricted space.

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07/06/07 03:15 AM
Robert Koehler
Variety
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...The Method is a tartly performed, compulsively watchable glass-tower And Then There Were None, in which the only blood that gets spilt comes from places that hurt the most: pride and ego.

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07/05/07 12:31 PM
Jan Stuart
Newsday
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Too clever by half, the plot contrivances deliver flippant satisfactions, and the agile performances keep the twists compelling, if less than credible.

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07/05/07 12:06 PM
Nathan Lee
Village Voice
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There is a madness to The Method, and it is a fine madness.

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07/05/07 08:42 AM
Frank Lovece
Film Journal International
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If only the writing matched the film's style and acting.

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06/29/07 01:34 PM
Marta Barber
Miami Herald
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Anyone who has ever had to undergo a grueling interview for a job or for college admission will relate to this witty albeit stagey story of seven candidates competing together in one room for one job.

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06/22/07 08:57 PM
Harvey S. Karten
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Ostensibly-inspired by The Apprentice, what this reality movie's missing most is a cocky host with a cotton candy-colored comb-over. How do you say, 'You're fired!' in Spanish.

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06/08/07 05:55 AM
Kam Williams
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Gripping but insignificant, The Method suggests Glengarry Glenn Ross with its teeth knocked out by Tony Soprano and nursed back to health by Mark Burnett.

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05/29/07 11:54 AM
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine
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The film is delightful, like a quality Gilligan's Island for these nervous globalized times.

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01/22/07 03:15 AM
Pam Grady
Reel.com
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Una adaptación que no hace un gran esfuerzo por disimular su origen teatral y se sostiene gracias a un buen elenco y algunas sorpresas.

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06/25/06 08:18 PM
Enrique Buchichio
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