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The Boss

2016

Ben Falcone

Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Bell, Peter Dinklage, Kathy Bates ...

4.0

2,071

Comedy A titan of industry is sent to prison after she's caught for insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.

	Media	Author	Review
		Justin Chang Variety	"McCarthy remains one of the funniest actors alive - a truth that frequently rescues, but doesn't really redeem, this sloppy comedy"
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	A sporadically funny film that has moments of real heart (...) It’s a shame, then, that so much else in The Boss plays out in a predictable or convoluted fashion"
		Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"'The Boss' feels like an elongated sketch (...) its paper-thin characterizations, hackneyed plotting and overdependence on viciously profane humor put this effort more in the minor league of Tammy"
		Jordan Hoffman The Guardian	"An unfunny, chaotic mess of ludicrous plotting and tone-deaf set-pieces (...) Many of The Boss’s troubles stem from its constant, unpredictable shifts in tone (...) Rating: ★ (out of five)"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"McCarthy is a national slapstick treasure, up there with Lucille Ball. As such, she's reason enough to see any movie — even The Boss, a weak-kneed comedy that would topple without her (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"
		Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"A fitful amalgam of bouncy and slack laughs mixed in with some blasts of pure physical comedy and loads of yammering heads. There isn’t much filmmaking in it, outside of Ms. McCarthy’s precision comedic timing"
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Melissa McCarthy is hilarious in every scene of "The Boss," but the movie rarely keeps up with her (...) ['The Boss is'] crammed with underwhelming gags"
		Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"Although her charisma is still undeniable, there’s also no denying that McCarthy is capable of much more than she’s allowing herself to do here (...) Rating: ★½ (out of four)"
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"A dreadful viewing experience, from the awkward and unconvincing setup to the desperate performances to the depressingly unfunny slapstick scenes to the conflicts and resolutions you can see a mile away (...) Rating: (out of four)"
		Dan Callahan The Wrap	"A film that succeeds as neither comedy nor drama (...) The curious thing about 'The Boss' (...) is how little it seems to be working to amuse"

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