2016 · comedy
The Boss
Directed by Ben Falcone1h 31m2016
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.
Our read: The Boss (2016) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
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How The Boss feels to watch.
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