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By Jamie East (261) for The Sun (UK) (932) on 08 Jun 2016

It gets schmaltzy, sags heavily in the middle and has gags that would cause outrage were genders reversed, but if you're looking for a LOL-fest…

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By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 08 Jun 2016

A film that is less than the sum of its parts…

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By Tim Evans (725) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 08 Jun 2016

McCarthy's superlative ability to riff on a theme provides some good laughs - check out the scene where she casts a critical eye over Claire…

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By Stella Papamichael (611) for Radio Times (2,421) on 08 Jun 2016

The Boss is a big fat drag of a movie and McCarthy, throwing herself into it with her usual crackling, live-wire energy, can only lift it in places…

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By Geoffrey Macnab (1,253) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 08 Jun 2016

It is probably too much to expect a mainstream comedy to sustain the level of malice, greed, misanthropy, and cynicism that propels The Boss…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 08 Jun 2016

It's quite funny, though not exactly original, and as with Amy Schumer, you can see how McCarthy gets de-fanged by the imperatives of mainstream…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 08 Jun 2016

McCarthy is stranded, salvaging only what she can through the stray excellence of her timing, which is more or less infallible…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 08 Jun 2016

Plays with hierarchies and rivalries of women's lives that often aren't seen onscreen, and embraces women as powerful…

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By Christopher O (256) on 07 Jun 2016

Melissa McCarthy is talented beyond words but her talents can't save this messy under developed script lazily directed by her husband Ben Falcone…

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By Jaden K (43) on 06 Jun 2016

I laughed a few times, I wasn't expecting much, so I wasn't disappointed…

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By Nathalie Brigitte B (6) on 06 Jun 2016

I laughed a few times, I wasn't expecting much, so I wasn't disappointed…

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By Nick C (1,239) on 06 Jun 2016

I laughed a few times, I wasn't expecting much, so I wasn't disappointed…

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By Josh Slater-Williams (157) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 05 Jun 2016

In the film's floundering search for a decent laugh, the wackiness is upped to desperate levels in the hope that something - anything - might stick…

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By Eddie Harrison (272) for The List (2,018) on 05 Jun 2016

It's a proficient but forgettable comedy well-suited to the raucous nature of its star…

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By Nicki M (953) on 04 Jun 2016

This movie wow made me laugh made me sad made me want to flip some things over it was well written had a decent plot (done differently then…

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By James White (109) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 04 Jun 2016

Fitfully funny but failing to really build to much of anything, The Boss is mostly a bust. Even its main character would have a hard time buying it…

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By Heather P (247) on 02 Jun 2016

While this was a descent movie, most of the funny parts were in the previews…

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By Sean G (809) on 02 Jun 2016

Like all of Melissa McCarthy's collaborations with her husband, director Ben Falcone, The Boss is a vehicle for one of her cartoonish character…

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By Henry F (178) on 01 Jun 2016

An unapologetic photocopy of some of McCarthy's famous past character traits, wrapped in a story that just isn't as interesting or funny as…

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By Brian Gibson (578) for Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) (665) on 01 Jun 2016

Swaggers and bulls through a few pratfalls and chuckles, slips in its childish efforts at crass comedy, slumps in its let's-be-a-family sentiment,…

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