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Haiku Tunnel (2001)

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Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 9

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Average Rating: 3.4/5
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A temp worker is promoted to permanent status and finds his whole world changing as a result in this satiric comedy. Josh (Josh Kornbluth) is an overstuffed aspiring writer who is trying to finish his first novel, but in the meantime he supports himself by working as an office temp. Josh has grown accustomed to the Byzantine world of temporary labor, particularly the bossy secretaries and chilly co-workers, but Josh manages to impress his latest employers enough that they offer to make him a

Feb 26, 2002

Sony Pictures Classics

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All Critics (55) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (28) | Rotten (20) | DVD (10)

In their low-budget, indie-film way, the Kornbluth brothers have come up with a modest, modern-day equivalent of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

October 27, 2001 Full Review Source: Denver Post | Comment
Denver Post
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Kornbluth is funny, but not funny enough to carry his feature comedy.

October 18, 2001 Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | Comment
Dallas Morning News
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It starts off disarming and charming but grows tedious in its fastidious attention to meaningless details.

October 15, 2001 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | Comment
Sacramento Bee
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A low-budget, mild-mannered comedy, often amusing and at times laugh-out-loud funny.

October 9, 2001 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
Houston Chronicle
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Josh becomes increasingly distraught and depressed, but not nearly as much as the poor people watching the movie.

September 28, 2001 Comment
Washington Post
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As 'Josh's' story wears on, so does one's patience.

September 27, 2001 Comment
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Not badly done, but overshadowed by the superior (and better funded) Office Space

October 28, 2005 Comment
Film Threat

A bit of an ego-trip, but an entertaining one.

September 7, 2004 Comment
New Times

No Japanese poetry or actual tunnels were used in the making of this film, [just] some pretty clever writing and directing

March 19, 2003 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

A sort of stylized, abstract companion piece to Mike Judge's very hilarious Office Space -- a warm, witty and original comedy.

October 21, 2002 Full Review Source: Entertainment Today | Comment
Entertainment Today

There's just not enough of a story for this to be a feature film.

March 14, 2002 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

There are far too many stretches where Josh is simply carried away with being Josh, and we are not particularly amused.

December 9, 2001 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Film Journal International

ultimately just a little too ingratiating.

October 24, 2001 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Haiku Tunnel

Josh Kornbluth plays Josh Kornbluth, super temp in the world of office politics and incompetent corporate superiors. He's a working man's hero (well, a secretary's hero) as a round ball of puffy passive-aggressive professionalism. When asked to go permanent for a tax attorney ("We'll even cover your? psychotherapy") is

February 24, 2006
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Nate Zoebl

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Some people really loved it, I thought it was just okay.

July 21, 2008
threefolddado

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