Like a Boss claims to know what women want, but unless it’s a confused, pandering, derivate comedy about friendship, it doesn’t have the answer.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 9, 2024

Salma Hayek has never been this forgettable than in this big bowl of nothingness...

| May 15, 2024

It disappoints despite low expectations...

| Original Score: D+ | Feb 20, 2024

One of the undersung comedy highlights of 2020...

| Sep 28, 2022

Enjoyable enough to secure a place as a basic cable mainstay for as long as basic cable remains a thing.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 13, 2022

It's funny... In terms of the racial dynamics I think that if you care about those things, this kind of black woman caricature that Tiffany Haddish has built to build her career, it's kind of getting in the way of her evolution.

| Sep 15, 2021

How much effort went into writing this script? One would venture it was the absolute minimum.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 16, 2021

Like a Boss takes its implausible plot line and fills it with vomit and other gags found in plenty of other forgettable comedies headlined by famous men.

| Jul 23, 2021

A creatively bankrupt comedy about a cosmetics tycoon that wastes its top-level talent.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 11, 2021

There are a handful of good giggles - Billy Porter's "witness my tragic moment" scene among them - that hint at what this movie could have been but it runs out of steam fast, well before the inevitable impromptu musical dance number at the end.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 30, 2021

This one-note star vehicle with a penchant for cliche and little regard for developing the world and the characters in it is sure to delight those who don't care about plot and who are entertained easily by stale jokes and overblown situational humor.

| Jan 29, 2021

Deeply unfunny, and Haddish and Byrne deserve so much better.

| Jan 4, 2021

Each character is more of a one note caricature and with editing to make each and every line feel forced, it's a painfully long feeling 83 minutes.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Nov 27, 2020

It does its job at being satisfactory the way one would expect but with some added touches.

| Sep 23, 2020

Not every comedy has to be razor-sharp and satirically insightful. Sometimes a daft Friday night laugh is all we need.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2020

[It] isn't an absolutely awful movie. It has a diverse cast and is clearly trying to make a statement about women being able to be business together without being catty...but it's unclear which goals the film prioritizes...

| Jul 21, 2020

Like a Boss is supposed to be a comedy about female empowerment in corporate America, but instead this movie has a very ghetto, misogynistic mindset that belongs in the same trash pile as a bunch of toxic and outdated cosmetics products.

| Jul 12, 2020

Everything else comes off as generic and factory-made, a movie that should escape from your mind the minute you check your phone after the credits begin.

| Original Score: D | Jul 5, 2020

The cast - especially Haddish - do what they can with the thin material, but the pantomime villainy becomes wearing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 21, 2020

The final revelation where the good guys outwit the one-dimensional villain is so turgid, because by that point we've forgotten that this crisis is supposed to be built on any tension. It all just plays as effortful, laboured and dull.

| May 4, 2020