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Movie Info

Following the Lehman Brothers collapse, Miss Chang prepares to list her billion-dollar company on the stock exchange. Before the shares go public, she learns her chairman's promises may not be easy for him to keep.

Genre:

comedy, musical, drama
Original Language:

Chinese
Director:

Johnnie To
Producer:

Johnnie To, Sylvia Chang
Writer:

Sylvia Chang
Release Date (Theaters):

Sep 18, 2015 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Sep 5, 2017
Runtime:

1h 57m

Cast & Crew

Chow Yun-Fat
Ho Chung-ping

Sylvia Chang
Cheung Wai

Eason Chan
Wong Tai-wai

Tang Wei
Sophie

Wang Ziyi
Lee Seung

Lang Yueting
Kei-kei

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Critic Reviews for Office

All Critics (29) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (4)

After a while the overpacked plot begins to feel like an afternoon meeting that won't end.

December 3, 2015 | Full Review…

J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader
For his first official foray into the genre, To brings his usual knack for cutting movement and stunningly composing figures against space to a world of pure stylization.

September 24, 2015 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
AV Club
Johnnie To and Sylvia Chang's stage-to-screen musical is a dazzling entertainment set against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crisis.

September 24, 2015 | Full Review…

Justin Chang
Variety
Those expecting one of To's manic comedies will instead be met with arguably his most dour drama.

September 18, 2015 | Full Review…

Jake Cole
Slant Magazine
A must-see for anyone looking for a thoughtful, and genuinely spectacular new musical.

September 18, 2015 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Simon Abrams
RogerEbert.com
If Mr. To were an American, his name would fall from lips as easily as Martin Scorsese's, another artist alive to cinema's past as well as its present.

September 17, 2015 | Full Review…

Manohla Dargis
New York Times
The tunes are a decent if eclectic mix, but Office is just too long and boring to sustain interest.

April 19, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Tom Bond
One Room With A View
Offices, board rooms, apartments, dive bars, fancy restaurants, hotel rooms, gymnasiums and 24-hour convenience stores are all rendered as a series of vertical lines, Mondrian prisons that dwarf and mock the petty manipulations of the characters.

April 5, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Daniel Barnes
Dare Daniel
"Office" isn't a radical critique of capitalism, but it gets its digs in nevertheless.

February 15, 2018 | Full Review…

Steve Erickson
Gay City News
If Hou Hsiao-hsien can make a martial-arts fantasy, then Johnnie To can damn well make a glossy musical. And with Office he has, and it's splendid

October 2, 2017 | Full Review…

Shelly Kraicer
Cinema Scope
If you think that theatre has nothing to do with your cinephilic tendencies, Office is easy proof that the masters of cinema tend to borrow from the stage, to often exquisite effect.

August 14, 2017 | Full Review…

Alex Heeney
Seventh Row
This balance between stodgy, realistic business talk and the fantasy realm of PVC pipe architecture hints at a veteran director unafraid to make some big risks of his own.

July 8, 2016 | Full Review…

Zach Lewis
Brooklyn Magazine