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By Jer M (167) on 16 Mar 2014

Not amazing but the message in the end was good…

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By Ahmed S (177) on 20 Jan 2014

Not overly funny, and strange characters fall flat…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 18 Dec 2013

The Promotion edges toward some pretty bleak stuff. Then it steps back and laughs, like an office slacker…

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By Sheridan P (155) on 09 Nov 2013

/ I found nothing in this movie funny,despite the cast…

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By Viktor N (364) on 04 Oct 2013

One of the worst comedys ever.. not a funny peace in it…

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By Rene Rodriguez (1,781) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 25 Aug 2013

The film's refusal to take its characters anything less than seriously makes it cut deeper than a Will Ferrell lampoon…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 11 Jul 2013

It's one of those off-balance movies that seems searching for the right tone…

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By Mathew F (17) on 31 Mar 2013

The Promotion has a lot of potential to be funny or even quite smart but in the end it just ends up leaving an awkward mess in almost every aisle…

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By Josh Rosenblatt (154) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 11 Mar 2013

Blends into so much white noise, until all that's left is the lingering sense that the tragic and promising story of Doug and Richard won't…

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By Merkley M (16) on 06 Mar 2013

You people who didn't like this are idiots…

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By Hobie P (400) on 05 Jan 2013

Somewhat fascinating, in a What would happen to a comedy if you shot, edited and scored it like a drama? kind of way…

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By Jack F (599) on 05 Dec 2012

Deadpan humour when most of the jokes simply don't work & Seann William Scott is terrible here & I usually like him, Overall the movie has…

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By Poul F (241) on 23 Nov 2012

It humanizes its characters and has some good laughs, the first half is a little light on humor but it picks up to a great second half…

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By Shaun B (772) on 11 Nov 2012

So-so competitive business flick. Feel bad for Scott & Reilly as they are much better that this mediocre film…

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By Ben P (961) on 06 Oct 2012

Not really funny enough to pass as a comedy and not serious enough to be a drama…

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By Lee H (754) on 25 Sep 2012

Kind of funny, kind of touching, kind of different…

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By Faith S (164) on 21 Sep 2012

I really wanted to like it, but it was mostly just depressing…

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By Darren C (652) on 19 Sep 2012

Quite an enjoyable comedy it just had the potential to be a whole lot funnier than it was…

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By Vicky A (28) on 15 Aug 2012

Quite dissapointing with 2 big names and lots of cameos, could of been much better. Some parts were very funny but they were few and far between…

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By Wesley Morris (1,967) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 13 Aug 2012

A good, occasionally insightful workplace comedy…

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