'The Boss' review: So, like, how long until 'Ghostbusters' comes out?
In a sea of blandly titled raunchfests — Neighbors, Sisters, Grown-Ups, Spy — The Boss still manages to stand out as the most generic title of them all. Which is sort of funny, considering just how strange Melissa McCarthy's latest movie is.
It's a foul-mouthed, R-rated comedy with the soul of a schlocky, mid-career Robin Williams vehicle; a film that takes 10 minutes to explore the comic possibilities of an old bra but hardly cares to explain how its title character made her vast fortune (**t to mention the mechanics of how she gets it back); a casually feminist Bechdel-buster that hinges **t one but two big punchlines on how hilarious it is when a man gives a**ther man a blow job. Read more...