Critic Reviews

• Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

  A you-are-there slip-and-slide that follows a supermarket chain's pricing department exec whose life gets upended by a whirlwind new boss.

• Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

  Walker finds a few fresh veins to mine, and some nice performances.

• Kyle Smith, New York Post

  A hilarious Parker Posey provides her customary blast of brittle energy in "Price Check," an engaging corporate comedy.

• Stephen Holden, New York Times

  Parker Posey cuts a ferociously funny swath through Michael Walker's "Price Check," a corporate comedy that tells you more than you ever wanted to know about the hypercompetitive world of retail marketing.

• Alonso Duralde, The Wrap

  It never feels like Walker seems all that interested in pursuing any of these ideas once he's raised them.

• Scott Tobias, NPR

  [Posey] inspires. She terrorizes. Whatever it takes to get the job done.

• Brian Orndorf, Blu-ray.com

  Posey is bravely unlikable and invested in Walker's script, turning Price Check from a mechanical comedic routine about office politics into something complex and occasionally dangerous. I wasn't aware she was even capable of this.

• Chase Whale, Twitch

  You can usually count on Parker Posey. That said, it's a real shame to watch her admirable talents dry up in the easily forgettable Price Check.

• Christine N. Ziemba, Paste Magazine

  Writer and director Walker posits a theory that unfortunately undermines the entire film: Casting the great Parker Posey as an offbeat character does not automatically make a film a comedy.

• R. Kurt Osenlund, Slant Magazine

  The script is teeming with informed jargon about the business of supermarket pricing, and with actors like Posey as its vessel, the dialogue rings with an unlikely blend of fascination and farce.

• Prairie Miller, NewsBlaze

  The latest stinging entry into the reality check stream of movies tackling the financial fallout of the Great Recession in one way or another. But too bad it's an entry into the stream of movies with buffoonish bashing of powerful women as well.

• Marshall Fine, Hollywood & Fine

  Posey's vivacious energy, mercurial moods, superlative sense of comic timing - all come to the fore in this tasty and dark little comedy about ambition and dreams deferred.

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