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The Boss
wealthy CEO and motivational speaker, Michelle Darnell (Melissa McCarthy) always gets her way, until she's busted for insider trading and sent to federal prison. After leaving the fail, she tries to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, but not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.
2 January 1975, Milford, Michigan, USA
28 June 1948, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
26 March 2005, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA
31 December 1964, Fullerton, California, USA
25 August 1973, Carbondale, Illinois, USA
12 June 1978, Readfield, Maine, USA
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 04, 2016
The Boss is not actually good. Melissa McCarthy is actually great in it, however.
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.
December 31, 2016
McCarthy is a brilliant physical comedian. But boy, does she need a decent director.
April 21, 2016
Dinklage is awful as the foppish villain, and aside from one uproarious, ad-libbed riff, McCarthy seems to be on autopilot.
December 12, 2016
Te movie's principal strategy (streaming profanity in inappropriate places) feels so familiar, it's a non-starter.
April 13, 2016
An opportunity to watch a comedic performer at the top of her game revel boldly in her own confident weirdness.
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.
July 22, 2016
The Boss is sketch comedy, with none of the lines colored in.
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.