[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 another perfectly pleasant, mid-tier comedy doomed to be forgotten, if not for the fact it features the potential birth of the next great comedy duo: Tiffany Haddish and Rose Byrne.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 28, 2020

There's nothing wrong with the cast of this glossy comedy... Yet even this hugely likeable trio can't save a film that strives for subversive laughs and sisterly inspiration and falls short on both counts.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 24, 2020

There's something uniquely dispiriting about a film that manages to waste the considerable talents of almost everybody involved, both in front of and behind the camera.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 23, 2020

Everyone in this movie deserves better than this movie. And so do you.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 23, 2020

If the basic test all studio comedies must pass is, "did anyone bother here?", all evidence points to a brisk, deflating hell-to-the-no.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 20, 2020

Haddish and Byrne play to their comedic strengths but Like A Boss falls foul of formulaic writing and a mistrust of the genre's full potential. Stick to its groundbreaking peers for a taste of something sweeter.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 19, 2020

Hayek brings more watchability to the project than it deserves. But she can't redeem a film this bafflingly slapdash.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 19, 2020

There are gags that land, but it's not a good movie.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Jan 23, 2020

A few scatological gags are scattered through the script and Arteta lays on the slapstick with Haddish handling most of it. You get the impression that he's trying to make another Bridesmaids but that his nerve and his inspiration keep failing him.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 23, 2020

I'm overthinking, but even bad art can tell us something about ourselves. At this point, we understand how business works. Why aim for the glass ceiling at all?

| Jan 22, 2020

Arteta has a knack for taking typical-sounding comedies and making them better by injecting them with heart, humor and authenticity. That's what he does here, and he does it like a boss.

| Original Score: B | Jan 20, 2020

A comedy whose laughs come from men who don't know how women and business are operating in the modern world, Like a Boss is as expired as five-year-old mascara.

| Jan 14, 2020

True to its workplace-themed title, "Like a Boss" feels like a chore someone was handed.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 14, 2020

Nothing that's happening on the screen feels real.

| Original Score: D | Jan 13, 2020

The movie (Like A Boss) isn't about sisterhood being powerful... It's about sisterhood being packageable.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jan 13, 2020

Best consumed after a few (pitchers of) mimosas at a girls brunch, Like a Boss is going to stick with you for less time than the hangover will.

| Original Score: C | Jan 12, 2020

How do you make a movie with Tiffany Haddish, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Coolidge, and Billy Porter, not to mention Salma Hayek in full human-cartoon form, and have it be so devoid of joy?

| Jan 11, 2020

Even at a brisk 83 minutes the comedy plods around aimlessly for much of its running time, building to a foregone conclusion that I saw coming from a mile away.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 11, 2020

It's odd how a movie that has so many interesting turns of phrase and quick wit can in and of itself not be funny at all.

| Jan 11, 2020