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'The Boss' is not worthy of star Melissa McCarthy

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'Boss' stars Melissa McCarthy as a CEO who has recently been released from jail for insider trading.

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'The Boss' stars Melissa McCarthy (l.) and Kristen Bell (r.).
  • By Peter Rainer Film critic

I persist in believing that Melissa McCarthy is capable of starring in a聽movie that not only makes a scads of money but is 鈥� you know 鈥� good.

The latest refutation of my belief is 鈥淭he Boss,鈥� in which she plays a chief executive officer gorgon who gets thrown in the can for insider trading and emerges not聽wiser, exactly, but slightly cuddlier.聽Along with a former employee, played blandly by Kristen Bell, she聽engineers a new enterprise selling brownies via a middle school聽girls鈥� troop conspicuously not named the Girl Scouts. The Scouts聽organization must have read the script.鈥� 鈥婫rade:聽D (Rated R for sexual content, language and brief drug use.)

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