Lili Taylor

More clever than insightful, [but] Harron makes the most of that humorously earnest style ripped from the pin-up pages.

Hard liquor goes in at the mouth, but when we're lucky, it comes out in the writer's grip.

The Promotion skates out onto that thin ice of comedic subtlety. Like its characters, it's not terribly successful, but it's an admirable effort all the same.

Though the film's heart is in the right place, somehow it all winds up about as flat as one of the celebrated pies at Mystic Pizza.

At times suffers from dull, dunderheaded, or dead-end plotlines [but]...There's enough here to keep hope alive that Gotham could grow into more of a weekly treat than a fanboy obligation.