Extract Critic Reviews

Nobody is better at capturing the crushing banality of everyday life than Judge.Read the full review

Extract seems destined to do minor business at the box office but achieve a kind of immortality as a cult DVD, to be quoted from at parties and passed around to friends. Which may be just fine by its creator--as Beavis and Butt-head have taught us, snickering with your friends in front of the television can is one of life's great joys.Read the full review

Affleck ought to do more quirky character roles rather than leading-man parts in action films. Bateman plays his low-key straight man/protagonist to perfection.Read the full review

Isn't an instant classic, but it bumps along agreeably.Read the full review

Judge is in the business of social satire, and his laughs can sting, but his movie is a comic salute to free enterprise. And, boy, do we need it now.Read the full review

Sort of entertaining, but lacks the focus and comic energy of Judge's "Office Space" (1999), and to believe that Suzie would be attracted to the gigolo requires not merely the suspension of disbelief, but its demolition.Read the full review

Extract is no masterpiece, but it's considerably better than many 2009 films that have received a more robust backing.Read the full review

Couldn't Mike Judge, with his acid wit, have come up with a better title for a suburban-schlub comedy than 
Extract?Read the full review

While Extract is mildly amusing and a slice of a mostly working-class world that doesn't make it into comedy that much anymore, it's not completely convincing as a movie.Read the full review