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wealthy CEO and motivational speaker, Michelle Darnell (Melissa McCarthy) always gets her way, until she's busted for insider trading and sent to federal prison. After leaving the fail, she tries to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, but not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.
You can put Melissa McCarthy in pretty much anything and expect to see it elevated as a result. Certainly she does this here: it'd be nothing at all without her. But even with her it's not enough.
I persist in believing that Melissa McCarthy is capable of starring in a movie that not only makes a scads of money but is -- you know -- good. The latest refutation of my belief is The Boss.
[McCarthy is] deliciously dry, harsh, funny, a fine physical comedian. She excels as weird supporting characters... Since her early films, however, she's tried to push herself as an improbable leading woman.
Even though The Boss is co-written by McCarthy and her husband, director Ben Falcone (who should know his wife's strengths better), the film often strands its title character in shrill one-note caricature, mostly unchallenged.