The Boss
A well-established CEO and extraordinary motivational speaker, Michelle has everything going for her. Unfortunately she gets caught for insider trading and is sent to prison. When she comes back she tries to reestablish her as America's latest sweetheart but not everyone is fooled by her antics.
8 February 1984, Springfield, Illinois, USA
25 August 1973, Carbondale, Illinois, USA
24 January 1978, Longmont, Colorado, USA
January 01, 2017
You can put Melissa McCarthy in pretty much anything and expect to see it elevated as a result. Certainly she does this here: it'd be nothing at all without her. But even with her it's not enough.
December 18, 2016
[McCarthy is] deliciously dry, harsh, funny, a fine physical comedian. She excels as weird supporting characters... Since her early films, however, she's tried to push herself as an improbable leading woman.
April 13, 2016
An opportunity to watch a comedic performer at the top of her game revel boldly in her own confident weirdness.
December 04, 2016
The Boss is not actually good. Melissa McCarthy is actually great in it, however.
April 10, 2016
Even though The Boss is co-written by McCarthy and her husband, director Ben Falcone (who should know his wife's strengths better), the film often strands its title character in shrill one-note caricature, mostly unchallenged.
April 21, 2016
Dinklage is awful as the foppish villain, and aside from one uproarious, ad-libbed riff, McCarthy seems to be on autopilot.
April 08, 2016
I persist in believing that Melissa McCarthy is capable of starring in a movie that not only makes a scads of money but is -- you know -- good. The latest refutation of my belief is The Boss.
April 11, 2016
The movie is all too neat a package for McCarthy's exuberantly inventive comic artistry.
December 31, 2016
McCarthy is a brilliant physical comedian. But boy, does she need a decent director.
July 22, 2016
The Boss is sketch comedy, with none of the lines colored in.
December 12, 2016
Te movie's principal strategy (streaming profanity in inappropriate places) feels so familiar, it's a non-starter.
