Metacritic reviews

Terrific French film about that most universal of subjects - work.

This sharp, convincing, and utterly contemporary political film calls to mind some of Ken Loach's work, full of passion as well as precision.

Human Resources resonates because it restores the humanity to that dehumanizing title phrase.

At its best when it's hovering around the muted dysfunction between a father and a son, who never understood each other to begin with.

A valuable, heartbreaking film about the way those resources are plugged into a system, drained of their usefulness and discarded.

A rare film about the class and educational divide that can happen even within families.

Part of the problem may be the use of non-actors in most of the roles. They look like real people, and they are entirely believable, but none has any kind of star charisma.

Human Resources, which gets my vote for most sarcastic title of the year, isn't a stand up and cheer kind of film.

A working-class drama that has its heart in the right place but undercuts itself by stacking the deck, letting its main character off too lightly and being overly impressed with its own profundity.

Works so well for the first 40 minutes or so, that when the bottom falls out of it, I felt more than disappointed. I felt betrayed.