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Movie ID: 774
RT slug: like_a_boss
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/like_a_boss
Release year: 2020
Runtime: 83 mins
Wide release date: 2020-01-10
Limited release date: —
Festival premiere date: —
Streaming release date: —
Tomatometer final: 22%
Audience score final: —
Genres: Comedy
Directors: Miguel Arteta
Writers: Adam Cole-Kelly, Sam Pitman
Producers: Joel Zadak, Marc Evans, Peter Principato, Tiffany Haddish
MPAA rating: R
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-06-16 21:11:01
Updated: 2026-06-16 21:11:01
Two best friends running a cosmetics company find their partnership tested when a wealthy industry titan offers to buy them out.
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Canonical reviews: 159
Canonical fresh: 35
Canonical rotten: 124
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 22%
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-06-16 13:59:58
Snapshot Tomatometer: 22%
Snapshot review count: 159
Snapshot fresh count: 35
Snapshot rotten count: 124
Source note: Imported from manual review paste batch #1356 (full_snapshot)
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| Billing | Name | Character |
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| 1 | Tiffany Haddish | Mia Carter |
| 2 | Rose Byrne | Mel Paige |
| 3 | Salma Hayek | Claire Luna |
| 4 | Karan Soni | Josh Tinker |
| 5 | Jacob Latimore | Harry |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 175469 | Jonathon Wilson | Ready Steady Cut | Rotten | 2/5 | 2024-11-09T15:36:00Z | 2024-11-09 15:36:00 | Like a Boss claims to know what women want, but unless it’s a confused, pandering, derivate comedy about friendship, it doesn’t have the answer. |
| 175470 | Mihir Fadnavis | Firstpost | Rotten | — | 2024-05-15T18:19:23Z | 2024-05-15 18:19:23 | Salma Hayek has never been this forgettable than in this big bowl of nothingness... |
| 175471 | Dave Giannini | InSession Film | Rotten | D+ | 2024-02-20T21:07:15Z | 2024-02-20 21:07:15 | It disappoints despite low expectations... |
| 175472 | Michael Cuby | them. | Fresh | — | 2022-09-28T00:44:54Z | 2022-09-28 00:44:54 | One of the undersung comedy highlights of 2020... |
| 175473 | Dan Bayer | Next Best Picture | Fresh | 7/10 | 2022-05-13T18:02:30Z | 2022-05-13 18:02:30 | Enjoyable enough to secure a place as a basic cable mainstay for as long as basic cable remains a thing. |
| 175474 | Lonita Cook | KCTV5 News at 9 | Fresh | — | 2021-09-15T23:30:52Z | 2021-09-15 23:30:52 | 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. |
| 175475 | Laura Potier | Outtake Mag | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-08-16T17:21:37Z | 2021-08-16 17:21:37 | How much effort went into writing this script? One would venture it was the absolute minimum. |
| 175476 | Robin Holabird | Robin Holabird | Rotten | — | 2021-07-23T19:30:38Z | 2021-07-23 19:30:38 | Like a Boss takes its implausible plot line and fills it with vomit and other gags found in plenty of other forgettable comedies headlined by famous men. |
| 175477 | Nick Levine | NME (New Musical Express) | Rotten | 1/5 | 2021-05-11T22:40:25Z | 2021-05-11 22:40:25 | A creatively bankrupt comedy about a cosmetics tycoon that wastes its top-level talent. |
| 175478 | Richard Crouse | Richard Crouse | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-01-30T19:10:46Z | 2021-01-30 19:10:46 | There are a handful of good giggles - Billy Porter's "witness my tragic moment" scene among them - that hint at what this movie could have been but it runs out of steam fast, well before the inevitable impromptu musical dance number at the end. |
| 175479 | Candice McMillan | Seattle Refined | Rotten | — | 2021-01-29T06:31:18Z | 2021-01-29 06:31:18 | This one-note star vehicle with a penchant for cliche and little regard for developing the world and the characters in it is sure to delight those who don't care about plot and who are entertained easily by stale jokes and overblown situational humor. |
| 175480 | Jade Budowski | Decider | Rotten | — | 2021-01-04T18:20:35Z | 2021-01-04 18:20:35 | Deeply unfunny, and Haddish and Byrne deserve so much better. |
| 175481 | Charles Koplinski | Reel Talk with Chuck and Pam | Rotten | 2.0/4.0 | 2020-11-27T00:50:11Z | 2020-11-27 00:50:11 | Each character is more of a one note caricature and with editing to make each and every line feel forced, it's a painfully long feeling 83 minutes. |
| 175482 | Matthew St. Clair | Cinema Sentries | Fresh | — | 2020-09-23T21:21:21Z | 2020-09-23 21:21:21 | It does its job at being satisfactory the way one would expect but with some added touches. |
| 175483 | Stephen A. Russell | The New Daily (Australia) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2020-08-15T05:50:01Z | 2020-08-15 05:50:01 | Not every comedy has to be razor-sharp and satirically insightful. Sometimes a daft Friday night laugh is all we need. |
| 175484 | Rachel Charlene Lewis | Bitch Media | Rotten | — | 2020-07-21T20:37:46Z | 2020-07-21 20:37:46 | [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... |
| 175485 | Carla Hay | Culture Mix | Rotten | — | 2020-07-12T19:10:33Z | 2020-07-12 19:10:33 | Like a Boss is supposed to be a comedy about female empowerment in corporate America, but instead this movie has a very ghetto, misogynistic mindset that belongs in the same trash pile as a bunch of toxic and outdated cosmetics products. |
| 175486 | Dan Buffa | KSDK News (St. Louis) | Rotten | D | 2020-07-05T16:40:20Z | 2020-07-05 16:40:20 | Everything else comes off as generic and factory-made, a movie that should escape from your mind the minute you check your phone after the credits begin. |
| 175487 | Sarah Cartland | Caution Spoilers | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-05-21T09:10:06Z | 2020-05-21 09:10:06 | The cast - especially Haddish - do what they can with the thin material, but the pantomime villainy becomes wearing. |
| 175488 | Andrew Kendall | Stabroek News | Rotten | — | 2020-05-04T06:40:11Z | 2020-05-04 06:40:11 | The final revelation where the good guys outwit the one-dimensional villain is so turgid, because by that point we've forgotten that this crisis is supposed to be built on any tension. It all just plays as effortful, laboured and dull. |
| 175489 | Zofia Wijaszka | Film Inquiry | Fresh | — | 2020-05-04T05:30:09Z | 2020-05-04 05:30:09 | It may not be the best comedy of the new decade, but it is unquestionably an entertaining film that is worth the watch. Empowering picture of female entrepreneurs and friends of twenty years showcases the real struggle of women in the business world. |
| 175490 | Allison Rose | FlickDirect | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2020-04-21T00:10:14Z | 2020-04-21 00:10:14 | Hayek comes across beautifully as the villain, but I'm not sure there is a role she can't pull off. |
| 175491 | Lauren Veneziani | WBAL-TV (Baltimore) | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2020-04-20T20:00:30Z | 2020-04-20 20:00:30 | Rose Byrne and Tiffany Haddish's friendship chemistry is what makes this film genuine, loving and funny. |
| 175492 | Tessa Smith | Mama's Geeky | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-04-16T17:30:14Z | 2020-04-16 17:30:14 | Like A Boss has the making of a really great girl power movie, but somewhere along the way it loses itself. |
| 175493 | Rihaana Stephens | Geeks of Color | Fresh | — | 2020-04-13T23:40:24Z | 2020-04-13 23:40:24 | While it's marketed as a comedy, there's plenty of drama in this film too. Fortunately, the drama doesn't feel forced but necessary. |
| 175494 | Bob Chipman | Escapist Magazine | Fresh | 6/10 | 2020-03-22T10:20:06Z | 2020-03-22 10:20:06 | A serviceable if forgettable buddy comedy mostly noteworthy for everything it doesn't do moreso than anything it actually does. |
| 175495 | MontiLee Stormer | MovieReelist.com | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2020-03-12T20:00:34Z | 2020-03-12 20:00:34 | I've been asked twice in the convening hours if I liked it and both times I hesitated. I didn't hate it, but as a film about girl power, it's relatively forgettable. |
| 175496 | Edward Porter | Sunday Times (UK) | Rotten | 1/5 | 2020-03-02T18:50:34Z | 2020-03-02 18:50:34 | As it is, Miguel Arteta's attempted comedy has all the phoniness of a formula chick flick, without any successful jokes. |
| 175497 | Clarisse Loughrey | Independent (UK) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2020-02-28T11:30:10Z | 2020-02-28 11:30:10 | 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. |
| 175498 | Alistair Harkness | Scotsman | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-02-26T21:20:33Z | 2020-02-26 21:20:33 | As the break-out star of 2017 hit Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish deserves a comedy vehicle to match her talents. Like a Boss is not it. |
| 175499 | Ed Potton | The Times (UK) | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-02-24T21:10:29Z | 2020-02-24 21:10:29 | 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. |
| 175500 | Rich Cline | Shadows on the Wall | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2020-02-24T18:20:23Z | 2020-02-24 18:20:23 | The script feels particularly thin, as if it was eviscerated to remove subtext or interesting character detail, leaving the plot feeling choppy and simplistic and the humour ungrounded. |
| 175501 | Alison Rowat | The Herald (Scotland) | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-02-24T18:20:22Z | 2020-02-24 18:20:22 | It's a measure of how little there is in the film that even at just 83 minutes it feels stretched. |
| 175502 | Wendy Ide | Observer (UK) | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-02-23T13:40:08Z | 2020-02-23 13:40:08 | 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. |
| 175503 | Tara Brady | Irish Times | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-02-23T12:50:04Z | 2020-02-23 12:50:04 | Everyone in this movie deserves better than this movie. And so do you. |
| 175504 | MaryAnn Johanson | Flick Filosopher | Fresh | 3/5 | 2020-02-22T19:30:09Z | 2020-02-22 19:30:09 | This instantly forgettable fluff lazily relies on too many unfunny slapstick and grossout tangents. But real humor blossoms in the terrific performances and in a fast, funny, and surprising feminism. |
| 175505 | Laura Delaney | RTÉ (Ireland) | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2020-02-21T20:20:26Z | 2020-02-21 20:20:26 | Like a Boss has all of the trappings for success but what is delivered to audiences is nothing but a collection of knock-off goods. |
| 175506 | Tim Robey | Daily Telegraph (UK) | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-02-20T20:40:18Z | 2020-02-20 20:40:18 | 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. |
| 175507 | Beth Webb | Empire Magazine | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-02-19T20:30:22Z | 2020-02-19 20:30:22 | Haddish and Byrne play to their comedic strengths but Like A Boss falls foul of formulaic writing and a mistrust of the genre's full potential. Stick to its groundbreaking peers for a taste of something sweeter. |
| 175508 | Danny Leigh | Financial Times | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-02-19T16:00:07Z | 2020-02-19 16:00:07 | Hayek brings more watchability to the project than it deserves. But she can't redeem a film this bafflingly slapdash. |
| 175509 | Karen Krizanovich | The List | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-02-17T13:50:08Z | 2020-02-17 13:50:08 | It's a film that so desperately wants to be funny, but isn't sure how. |
| 175510 | Emily Breen | HeyUGuys | Fresh | 2/5 | 2020-02-14T13:20:06Z | 2020-02-14 13:20:06 | The leads are too old to make whacky life choices cute or realistic and 'I Feel Pretty' already did the "be your true self, yay friends, yay make-up!" schtick back in 2018. |
| 175511 | Shawn Edwards | Fox 4 Kansas City | Rotten | 1/5 | 2020-02-12T00:00:21Z | 2020-02-12 00:00:21 | A tasteless, humorless and juvenile movie... |
| 175512 | Stephen Silver | Splice Today | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-02-04T17:30:19Z | 2020-02-04 17:30:19 | Has a lot of things on its mind, but ultimately doesn't hang together |
| 175513 | Javier Perez | Cine Premiere | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-01-31T23:00:37Z | 2020-01-31 23:00:37 | Without an obvious aesthetic proposal, it seems that Jas Shelton photographed the film in a catatonic mood. [Full Review in Spanish] |
| 175514 | Leigh Paatsch | Herald Sun (Australia) | Rotten | 1/5 | 2020-01-30T21:01:01Z | 2020-01-30 21:01:01 | Much of what transpires effortlessly defies all logic, and clinically avoids what are conventionally recognised to be "jokes". |
| 175515 | Rene Sanchez | Cine Sin Fronteras | Rotten | 2/4 | 2020-01-30T08:20:13Z | 2020-01-30 08:20:13 | It doesn't dare to break away from the proven formula or take any risks. An ordinary comedy saved by the chemistry of its leads. [Full Review in Spanish] |
| 175516 | Vicky Roach | Daily Telegraph (Australia) | Rotten | 1/5 | 2020-01-27T18:40:55Z | 2020-01-27 18:40:55 | A calculated attempt to cash in on the female dollar. |
| 175517 | David Nusair | Reel Film Reviews | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2020-01-26T17:00:19Z | 2020-01-26 17:00:19 | Entirely forgettable... |
| 175518 | Matt Brunson | Film Frenzy | Rotten | 1/4 | 2020-01-25T21:50:43Z | 2020-01-25 21:50:43 | Like a Boss is a truly terrible movie that wastes the talents of a good cast in material that would be beneath everyone with the exception of Rob Schneider. |
| 175519 | Peter Gray | This is Film | Rotten | — | 2020-01-25T14:30:18Z | 2020-01-25 14:30:18 | Given how much proven talent there is collectively on board here ... you can't help but feel deflated when the resulting product is so mediocre, so by-the-numbers, and so predictable. |
| 175520 | Frank Ochieng | Flick Feast | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-01-24T02:20:24Z | 2020-01-24 02:20:24 | [A] flat and flimsy premise deserving of an immediate pink slip. The monotonous Like a Boss drags out its cockeyed comedic conflict with all the originality and imagination of cherry-colored lip gloss. |
| 175521 | James Croot | The Post NZ | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2020-01-23T20:10:23Z | 2020-01-23 20:10:23 | Both Haddish and Byrne are very talented comedians. But this is not their finest hour-and-20-minutes. Everything about this flat, fatuous scenario feels forced and rushed. |
| 175522 | Alonso Duralde | Breakfast All Day | Rotten | 5.5/10 | 2020-01-23T19:50:21Z | 2020-01-23 19:50:21 | There are gags that land, but it's not a good movie. |
| 175523 | Sandra Hall | Sydney Morning Herald | Fresh | 2.5/5 | 2020-01-23T18:00:26Z | 2020-01-23 18:00:26 | A few scatological gags are scattered through the script and Arteta lays on the slapstick with Haddish handling most of it. You get the impression that he's trying to make another Bridesmaids but that his nerve and his inspiration keep failing him. |
| 175524 | Jim Schembri | 3AW | Fresh | 2.5/5 | 2020-01-23T03:00:15Z | 2020-01-23 03:00:15 | There is a pretty decent fistful of laughs in the film, mostly from Rose Byrne, who has been stealing scenes in comedy films since Bridesmaids...Ironically, the film was intended as a vehicle for Tiffany Haddish, though she can't quite match her co-star. |
| 175525 | Grant Watson | Fiction Machine | Rotten | 5/10 | 2020-01-23T01:50:08Z | 2020-01-23 01:50:08 | Far from the worst film you will likely see this year, but neither is it particularly good. |
| 175526 | Rumaan Alam | The New Republic | Rotten | — | 2020-01-22T21:50:16Z | 2020-01-22 21:50:16 | I'm overthinking, but even bad art can tell us something about ourselves. At this point, we understand how business works. Why aim for the glass ceiling at all? |
| 175527 | Micheal Compton | Bowling Green Daily News | Rotten | C | 2020-01-21T18:20:16Z | 2020-01-21 18:20:16 | Despite a very talented cast and a director with a solid track record in the comedy genre, "Boss" can't overcome a wobbly screenplay. |
| 175528 | Damian Levy | Jamaica Gleaner | Fresh | — | 2020-01-20T20:50:06Z | 2020-01-20 20:50:06 | Low Half Price People will be able to point at the screen and say, "That's me!" and hear a positive message reinforced. What else is cinema for. |
| 175529 | Adam Graham | Detroit News | Fresh | B | 2020-01-20T14:30:08Z | 2020-01-20 14:30:08 | Arteta has a knack for taking typical-sounding comedies and making them better by injecting them with heart, humor and authenticity. That's what he does here, and he does it like a boss. |
| 175530 | Richard Bonaduce | KTSU-TV (Salt Lake City, UT) | Rotten | C- | 2020-01-19T15:30:04Z | 2020-01-19 15:30:04 | It probably seemed like a good idea at the time. |
| 175531 | Tim Brayton | Alternate Ending | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2020-01-17T06:50:06Z | 2020-01-17 06:50:06 | One daydreams about a better movie that lets Haddish and Byrne do the same thing with well-defined, interesting roles and decent jokes to recite. |
| 175532 | Stephen Garrett | Book & Film Globe | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-01-16T20:30:23Z | 2020-01-16 20:30:23 | Like a Boss is more of a loss, a missed opportunity that platforms all the right intentions in all the wrong ways. |
| 175533 | Ken Eisner | Georgia Straight | Rotten | — | 2020-01-16T18:30:20Z | 2020-01-16 18:30:20 | It's hard to say if this strikingly unfunny effort, led by a notably affable cast, would be better if it wasn't written and directed by men. |
| 175534 | Susan Granger | SSG Syndicate | Rotten | 4/10 | 2020-01-16T18:10:23Z | 2020-01-16 18:10:23 | Misogynistic female-led buddy comedy, filled with reprehensible stereotypes. |
| 175535 | Sean P. Means | The Movie Cricket | Rotten | 2/4 | 2020-01-16T06:30:06Z | 2020-01-16 06:30:06 | There's a vast gulf between a funny movie and a movie with a lot of funny people in it, and within that gulf rests "Like a Boss," whose raunchy humor misses more than it hits. |
| 175536 | Jonita Davis | The Black Cape | Fresh | 3/5 | 2020-01-16T01:30:08Z | 2020-01-16 01:30:08 | While it's not an award-winning film, 'Like a Boss' is good entertainment for anyone looking for a funny movie that you don't have to think really hard about. |
| 175537 | Jackie K. Cooper | jackiekcooper.com | Rotten | 3/10 | 2020-01-16T01:00:08Z | 2020-01-16 01:00:08 | Crude and coarse, but worst of all it is not funny. Horribly scripted and terribly acted, this is another wound to Haddish's career. |
| 175538 | Louisa Moore | Screen Zealots | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-01-15T19:30:08Z | 2020-01-15 19:30:08 | A barely tolerable movie that is perfectly acceptable for a mindless girls' night out; emphasis on the "mindless." |
| 175539 | Jordan Calhoun | Black Nerd Problems | Rotten | — | 2020-01-15T14:20:08Z | 2020-01-15 14:20:08 | Its runtime is short, coming in at under 90 minutes, but this one feels long. Hopefully it's not long in our memories. |
| 175540 | Kristen Lopez | FanSided | Rotten | — | 2020-01-14T22:20:17Z | 2020-01-14 22:20:17 | A comedy whose laughs come from men who don't know how women and business are operating in the modern world, Like a Boss is as expired as five-year-old mascara. |
| 175541 | Chris Knight | National Post | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2020-01-14T19:00:14Z | 2020-01-14 19:00:14 | Nothing feels essential; if you exfoliated this screenplay you'd be left with nothing but a cover page and a couple of staples. |
| 175542 | Ciara Wardlow | Pajiba | Rotten | — | 2020-01-14T18:20:11Z | 2020-01-14 18:20:11 | [Y]ou're best off avoiding this depressingly standard January dump flick and letting it fade quietly into the obscurity to which it is destined. |
| 175543 | Michael O'Sullivan | Washington Post | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2020-01-14T02:50:09Z | 2020-01-14 02:50:09 | True to its workplace-themed title, "Like a Boss" feels like a chore someone was handed. |
| 175545 | Korey Coleman | Double Toasted | Fresh | — | 2020-01-13T23:10:09Z | 2020-01-13 23:10:09 | There are bits and pieces of a few real gems in there...I gotta be fair, I hate myself even saying this, but I'm letting it get by. |
| 175544 | Martin Thomas | Double Toasted | Rotten | — | 2020-01-13T23:10:09Z | 2020-01-13 23:10:09 | It has all the elements of the same old nonsense...I'm not necessarily saying you even watch this when it comes on Netflix... |
| 175546 | Brittany Patrice Witherspoon | Film Threat | Rotten | 4/10 | 2020-01-13T19:00:18Z | 2020-01-13 19:00:18 | This is about as lifeless and unfunny as it gets. |
| 175547 | Mattie Lucas | From the Front Row | Rotten | 1/4 | 2020-01-13T18:40:17Z | 2020-01-13 18:40:17 | The by-the-numbers script does its cast no favors, saddling Haddish with lame one-liners and completely wasting reliable supporting players like Billy Porter and Jennifer Coolidge. |
| 175549 | Michael Sragow | Film Comment Magazine | Rotten | 3/10 | 2020-01-13T16:50:09Z | 2020-01-13 16:50:09 | The movie (Like A Boss) isn't about sisterhood being powerful... It's about sisterhood being packageable. |
| 175548 | Chris Stuckmann | ChrisStuckmann.com | Rotten | D | 2020-01-13T16:50:09Z | 2020-01-13 16:50:09 | Nothing that's happening on the screen feels real. |
| 175550 | Grady Bolding | Cultured Vultures | Rotten | 4/10 | 2020-01-13T11:40:04Z | 2020-01-13 11:40:04 | The cast will have another credit to their resumes, but audiences will have another dry comedy to forget. |
| 175551 | Cameron Meier | MeierMovies.com | Rotten | 0.5/5 | 2020-01-13T04:10:05Z | 2020-01-13 04:10:05 | Like a Boss is the worst thing to happen to the cosmetics industry since skin rashes. |
| 175552 | Paul McGuire Grimes | Paul's Trip to the Movies | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-01-13T01:10:05Z | 2020-01-13 01:10:05 | While the film has its laugh out loud moments, there are stretches where the comedy does not land and you feel the actors desperately trying to make the movie funny. |
| 175553 | Kimber Myers | The Playlist | Rotten | C | 2020-01-12T21:20:05Z | 2020-01-12 21:20:05 | Best consumed after a few (pitchers of) mimosas at a girls brunch, Like a Boss is going to stick with you for less time than the hangover will. |
| 175554 | Rachel Wagner | rachelsreviews.net | Rotten | 4.5/10 | 2020-01-12T03:00:06Z | 2020-01-12 03:00:06 | It is not surprising this film is written and directed by men because the complexities of the female experience in business as presented are so reductive and cringe-worthy |
| 175555 | Edwin Arnaudin | Asheville Movies | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2020-01-11T23:50:06Z | 2020-01-11 23:50:06 | The flimsy narrative is all the structure Haddish needs to hang her endless string of amusing, frequently raunchy lines, and finds a game partner in Byrne. |
| 175556 | Nate Adams | The Only Critic | Rotten | D+ | 2020-01-11T23:20:05Z | 2020-01-11 23:20:05 | What should have been a terrific buddy comedy vehicle for its lead stars, turns into a structurally incoherent mess rather quickly. |
| 175557 | Alison Willmore | New York Magazine/Vulture | Rotten | — | 2020-01-11T19:30:06Z | 2020-01-11 19:30:06 | How do you make a movie with Tiffany Haddish, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Coolidge, and Billy Porter, not to mention Salma Hayek in full human-cartoon form, and have it be so devoid of joy? |
| 175558 | John Urbancich | Your Movies (cleveland.com) | Rotten | 1/5 | 2020-01-11T17:50:07Z | 2020-01-11 17:50:07 | Rude, crude and chock-full of unfounded 'tude, 'Just Like a Boss' not only might be the most shallow film to open a new year, but certainly already is assured a place on a slew of 2020 "worst" lists. |
| 175559 | Jeff Mitchell | Phoenix Film Festival | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2020-01-11T06:00:06Z | 2020-01-11 06:00:06 | The chuckles start to wane after the first 20 minutes, and the remaining 60 are largely spent feeling pity for Haddish and Byrne. |
| 175560 | Sara Michelle Fetters | MovieFreak.com | Rotten | 2/4 | 2020-01-11T05:10:09Z | 2020-01-11 05:10:09 | Even at a brisk 83 minutes the comedy plods around aimlessly for much of its running time, building to a foregone conclusion that I saw coming from a mile away. |
| 175561 | Pallabi Dey Purkayastha | The Times of India | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2020-01-11T01:30:27Z | 2020-01-11 01:30:27 | To sum it up, the experience of watching Like A Boss is like revisiting high school in a not-so-nostalgic way. |
| 175562 | Tim Cogshell | FilmWeek (LAist) | Rotten | — | 2020-01-11T01:00:27Z | 2020-01-11 01:00:27 | It's odd how a movie that has so many interesting turns of phrase and quick wit can in and of itself not be funny at all. |
| 175563 | Pete Hammond | Deadline Hollywood Daily | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2020-01-10T23:50:17Z | 2020-01-10 23:50:17 | Despite the best efforts of Tiffany Haddish and Rose Byrne, Like A Boss strains for laughs and rarely gets them. |
| 175564 | Frank Wilkins | Reel Reviews | Rotten | 1/5 | 2020-01-10T23:00:14Z | 2020-01-10 23:00:14 | Anyone hoping to see Haddish's return to comedic form should stay far away from this one. May very well be her worst to date. |
| 175565 | Teddy Durgin | Screen It! | Rotten | — | 2020-01-10T21:50:15Z | 2020-01-10 21:50:15 | Wears out its welcome long before the end credits roll. (Full Content Review for Parents - Profanity, Sexual Content, etc. - also Available) |
| 175566 | Julian Lytle | idobi.com | Fresh | 7/10 | 2020-01-10T21:40:11Z | 2020-01-10 21:40:11 | This movie is McDonald's chicken nuggets; they might not be good for you but when they're hot and you've got sauce, man, they sure are fantastic. |
| 175567 | Annlee Ellingson | L.A. Biz | Rotten | — | 2020-01-10T21:30:13Z | 2020-01-10 21:30:13 | Sporadically funny and sloppily constructed. |
| 175568 | Hoai-Tran Bui | Slashfilm | Rotten | 5.5/10 | 2020-01-10T21:20:13Z | 2020-01-10 21:20:13 | The problem with Like a Boss is that it spends so much time being a pale imitation of other female-led comedies that it overlooks what makes the film work: Haddish and Byrne. |
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