Like a Boss

[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...

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

It disappoints despite low expectations...

One of the undersung comedy highlights of 2020...

Enjoyable enough to secure a place as a basic cable mainstay for as long as basic cable remains a thing.

It's funny... In terms of the racial dynamics I think that if you care about those things, this kind of black woman caricature that Tiffany Haddish has built to build her career, it's kind of getting in the way of her evolution.