The film, which premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, was named the best film of 2016 by Sight & Sound and other respected cinema magazines. It stars Peter Simonischek and Sandra Hüller. The rest, you can live without.Toni Erdmann is a 2016 German-Austrian comedy-drama film directed, written and co-produced by Maren Ade. (She even manages to wrangle a genuine laugh from a silly sofa bed bit that, when later repeated, reveals how meh the joke actually is.) And she shares an easy chemistry with Bell, who also delivers on a half-baked role.īut here's the bad: The characters are underdeveloped and underwritten a prison subplot that sounds promising goes nowhere (and is strangely unexplored, comedy-wise) and there are so many holes in the remaining storyline that you have to wonder what happened in the process of filming.

First, the good: McCarthy is simply fun to watch, and she almost makes you forget that the plot's so thin because she's so effortless in her comedy.

It taps into McCarthy's patented sass but ultimately fails to deliver because a) it dilutes her comic powers with superficial storytelling and odd pacing and b) it peppers bracingly refreshing moments with tired, old jokes. If it's possible to be disappointed in and delighted by a movie simultaneously, then The Boss delivers. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails. That said, somewhere underneath all the mayhem are messages about redemption, friendship, and money not buying happiness. As such, much of the movie's material - including frequent sexual innuendo/references, lots of swearing (including 'f-k'), cocaine use, and an all-out rumble in which moms and kids rip one another's hair off, shove and toss each other around, and generally beat each other up - is better suited for older teens and adults. She also has a take-no-prisoners attitude toward business. Michelle Darnell is a pretty bawdy character: She swears at and in front of kids, freely dispenses sexual advice, and can't stay away from her sometimes-violent nemesis. Parents need to know that The Boss is a sometimes hard-edged comedy about a financial guru ( Melissa McCarthy) with a hard-scrabble past who's thrown into jail and has a tough time working her way back to success after she gets out.

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