Don't waste your time on Boss Level.

| Mar 15, 2021

Time and again, Grillo surprises and delights, no matter the creative or financial restraints placed upon him. Boss Level could learn a thing or two from its leading man.

| Mar 15, 2021

Not funny or provocative at all, but simply the droning spectacle of this unlikable man being killed and then killed again.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 10, 2021

The mystery remains: What on earth is Watts doing in a silly affair like this?

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 9, 2021

The charismatic supporting player Frank Grillo takes center stage in this entertaining time loop thriller.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 9, 2021

The Oscar-nominated Watts is incredibly talented, so the fact that she's the lame love interest in Boss Level opposite Mel Gibson is disappointing, to say the least.

| Mar 9, 2021

The pieces don't always add up, but there are worse ways to kill a couple hours.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 6, 2021

Not that something like Boss Level breaks any ground, or -- with apologies to the premise -- is worth watching over and over. But for those craving an action distraction, it's a reasonably entertaining way to kill time.

| Mar 6, 2021

Boss Level compensates for its overstuffed scenario and relentless derivativeness -- actually, it makes you stop caring about its relentless derivativeness -- with concentrated fast pacing and breakneck action.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 5, 2021

An increasingly tedious amount of repetitive violence played for laughs...

| Mar 5, 2021

With no pixels in sight, Grillo gives "Boss Level" the thing most videogame movie riffs lack: a pulse.

| Original Score: B | Mar 4, 2021

"Boss Level" takes a well-worn gag and injects energy, showing the genre is still a game worth playing.

| Mar 4, 2021

Some will call it a guilty pleasure, but I felt no guilt enjoying the heck out of this.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 4, 2021

By the time you're a quarter of the way through it you're thinking, "Why hasn't anyone done this before?"

| Mar 4, 2021

If the cast is above average, so is some of the humour, although dark doesn't quite describe it. Dark and red might be closer.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 4, 2021

The sentimentality is as rote as the movie's '80s lunchbox nostalgia, which offers up a Wilhelm scream, some entry-level Raiders Of The Lost Ark trivia, and a trip to an arcade tournament without the grating nerdy investment of, say, Ernest Cline.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 3, 2021

As the umpteenth time loop movie we've seen of late, Boss Level never offers a convincing enough argument for the gimmick to be leaned on yet again, a mishmash of better movies blended into something a little bland.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 3, 2021

Sometimes you need a little bit of fun, and "Boss Level" delivers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 2, 2021

This is all passably satisfying, but would be vastly better if the screenwriters weren't lazily explaining every single detail in voiceover.

| Mar 1, 2021