- 10
...a shrewd, timely, and terrifically engrossing drama of white-collar reckoning...
—Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly
- 9
American movies rarely catch the American male so nakedly powerless and shattered.
—Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter
- 9
Riding on the strong performances of Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones and Chris Cooper, portraying mid- to high-level employees at the fictional Boston company GTX, the movie is realistic enough to make all corporate climbers, but especially men over 50, quake in their boots. If you are what you do, what are you if you're no longer doing it?
—Stephen Holden New York Times
- 7
...maybe best understood as a chick flick about dicks: Before its too-easy conclusion, the movie offers a multifaceted glimpse at what can happen when the connective tissue between a man and his source of income is cut, and rarely suggests that it could be anything less than excruciating to stop the bleeding.
—Karina Longworth Village Voice
- 7
...maybe best understood as a chick flick about dicks: Before its too-easy conclusion, the movie offers a multifaceted glimpse at what can happen when the connective tissue between a man and his source of income is cut, and rarely suggests that it could be anything less than excruciating to stop the bleeding.
—Karina Longworth LA Weekly
- 7
...has an insider feel when it comes to how corporate layoffs work and how they affect workers of differing ages and social backgrounds.
—Noel Murray Onion AV Club
- 7
...extremely well-acted...
—Lou Lumenick New York Post
- 7
...offers no great elation or despair. Its world is what it is. We all live in it.
—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
- 7
It's simple stuff, but the movie's heart is in the right place.
—Scott Bowles USA Today
- 6
...has a great cast at the service of a so-so movie.
—Michael Phillips Los Angeles Times
- 6
The actors make the film worth seeing but its 106 minutes of super-soap operatic crises drag on, bringing a sigh of relief when the real, actual end comes into our sightlines.
—Jules Brenner filmcritic.com
- 6
Great cast in the service of a so-so movie...
—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune
- 5
...feels late to the downsizing conversation... [20 December 2010, p.39]
—Alynda Wheat People
- 5
...uneven...
—Dezhda Gaubert E!
- 4
Comfort food for the corporate class in crisis...
—Bill Weber Slant Magazine