Like a Boss

Name: Like a Boss
Director: Miguel Arteta
Released: 2020

Miguel Arteta

2020

Synopsis

Two female friends with very different ideals decide to start a beauty company together. One is more practical, while the other wants to earn her fortune and live a lavish lifestyle.

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70
Variety
Its economic message might be fuzzy. Its feminism, too. But best-friend comedy Like a Boss rides Tiffany Haddish and Rose Byrnes’s frisky and believable chemistry to laughs — some worn, some crude, but more than a few delivered deftly and consistently enough to keep audiences smiling if not doubled over.
63
New York Post
Thankfully, director Miguel Arteta (“Beatriz at Dinner”) gets a solid half-hour of funny out of this thing before clunkiness sets in.
50
Screen Rant
There's a real sweetness at the center of the film, but Like A Boss surrounds that heart with middling raunch comedy.
50
The Hollywood Reporter
Quite funny for much of its running time, the film feels like it simply runs out of steam in its third act, settling for a lazy, pandering resolution and seeming happy to have made it to the 83-minute finish line.
50
The A.V. Club
If you’re looking for something truly groundbreaking—or hilarious—Like A Boss isn’t it.
38
Movie Nation
Like a Boss delivers a solid opening twenty minutes, and a few laughs, here and there, after that. Just not enough.
38
Chicago Tribune
Conceived and developed shortly after Haddish scored, deservedly, with “Girls Trip,”” the movie is a mechanical series of witless yeast infection jokes, or thereabouts. While director Miguel Arteta has made some interesting work in the past, including “The Good Girl” and “Beatriz at Dinner,” his way with low physical comedy here is pretty artless.
30
Austin Chronicle
Aside from the committee-written script with no coherent perspective, the trouble with Like a Boss is that it never crudely outrages. It’s a bust in so many ways. The halfhearted gender and cultural political incorrectness of Hayek’s ridiculous character makes for halfhearted laughs, and that’s being generous.