Calculatedly self-promoting in his self-effacing trickery, von Trier again makes a work of an audacity—this time, not as tragedy but as farce—that belongs more to advertising than to cinema.

| Apr 18, 2022

A fresh, nimble-footed departure from one of the world's greatest living directors.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 6, 2019

If The Boss of It All is forgettable, it's not for its airiness, but for its failed artiness, and for von Trier's failure to be true to his art.

| Aug 24, 2017

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

An appealing low-budget quirky spoof on corporations.

| Original Score: B | Aug 27, 2009

A bit of a shambles, but perhaps in its lack of von Trier's usual pretensions will lie the charm of this film for some.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 29, 2008

Full of in-jokes for Von Trier fans and oddly shot, the quirkiness will probably be lost on those unfamiliar with the Dogme 95 man's work.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 29, 2008

Von Trier has evidently been watching The Office, and replicates both its soulless setting and fly-on-the-desk camera-style, not to mention the Brentian fear of being unpopular.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 29, 2008

The script and story are what matter. They are as neat and interlocked as nail scissors. They are also grimly funny.

| Feb 29, 2008

Von Trier may be commenting on the mechanical, dehumanised nature of corporate decision-making, or of Hollywood filmmaking. Maybe he's just being whimsical. It's always hard to tell with this joker-provocateur. And always completely fascinating.

| Feb 29, 2008

In some ways, I enjoyed this movie more than any of his features, and yet it's sad that he has drawn in his horns so much.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 29, 2008

Despite roguish interventions from Von Trier himself (in voiceover, and on screen), the movie has more in common with Working Girl and Trading Places than anything from Europe's leading auteur. Which, it seems, is a lucky, liberating thing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 29, 2008

Light, frothy and bitingly funny with a pleasingly dark underside.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 29, 2008

A movie that manages to be both brilliantly witty and delightfully subversive - not least for reportedly entrusting all its cinematography to a computer.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2008

For all the sleights of hand its director conjures up, this is an undeniably slight affair. But it's still a sublimely entertaining one from a maverick confident enough in his abilities to make fun of his previous work and his agent provocateur persona.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2008

Unpolished, but winning.

| Feb 28, 2008

Von Trier's deconstructionist streak stymies this admirable attempt at a comedy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 28, 2008

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 24, 2007

In the humor department, The Boss of It All elicits few belly laughs but lots of thoughtful chuckles.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 14, 2007