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The Boss of It All
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71 out of 100

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6.7 out of 10

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  • Starring: Friğrik Şór Friğriksson, Jens Albinus, Peter Gantzler
  • Summary: In this comedy, the owner of an IT firm wants to sell up. There is just one problem: back when he started the firm he invented a fictitious boss to hide behind when there were unpopular decisions to make. The would-be buyers insist on negotiating with the boss in the flesh and so the owner resorts to employing a down-at-heel actor to play the part. Suddenly, the actor discovers that he is a pawn in a game that sorely tests his (lack of) moral force. (IFC First Take)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Marc Mohan
    91
    The first of von Trier's efforts to be certifiably farcical.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Scott Foundas
    90
    Colors and angles and sound levels don't match from one cut to the next. The movie is ugly as sin to look at. But it's all intentional on the part of von Trier.
  3. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    50
    It's a modest and mildly funny effort, with good scenes and touches of incisive satire, but it's not quite funny enough, and it's undermined by its camera technique.

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  1. DavidR.
    2
    Is Von Trier even trying anymore? Glad to see people have stopped paying attention to his films and are realizing The Idiots was a fluke. Keep Dogme95 back in 1995 when Von Trier was a goat herder and a real filmmaker like Michael Mann was finishing his masterpiece Heat.… Expand
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