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  • 2022
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 1 h 56 m
  • 2022
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 1 h 56 m

Summary Básculas Blanco, a Spanish company producing industrial scales in a provincial Spanish town, awaits the imminent visit from a committee which holds its fate in their hands as to whether they merit a local Business Excellence award. Everything has to be perfect when the time comes. Working against the clock, the company’s proprietor, Bla...

Directed By: Fernando León de Aranoa

Written By: Fernando León de Aranoa

  • 2022
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 1 h 56 m
  • 2022
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 1 h 56 m

The Good Boss

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings
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Summary Básculas Blanco, a Spanish company producing industrial scales in a provincial Spanish town, awaits the imminent visit from a committee which holds its fate in their hands as to whether they merit a local Business Excellence award. Everything has to be perfect when the time comes. Working against the clock, the company’s proprietor, Bla...

Directed By: Fernando León de Aranoa

Written By: Fernando León de Aranoa

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Metascore
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Generally Favorable Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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65% Positive
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35% Mixed
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91
Aug 25, 2022
Aranoa has pulled together an excellent cast. But holding it all together is the formidable and always watchable Bardem. His performance makes this satire also a character study.
By Karen Gordon FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 26, 2022
The film, instead of repeating clichés about the supposed heartlessness of the ruling class, could be viewed as either a barbed accusation of managerial hypocrisy from a working-class point of view or as an exasperated testimonial from a manager of how workers make it impossible to run a company like a family.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 1, 2022
Here’s the thing about bad bosses: they rarely realize they are bad bosses. Even if they’re manipulative, inflexible, uncaring, incompetent, out of touch and generally terrible at virtually every facet of the position, they think they’re doing a fantastic job. So it goes with Javier Bardem’s charming, hands-on, seemingly caring Blanco in writer-director Fernando León de Aranoa’s wickedly warped comedy/drama The Good Boss.
By Richard Roeper FULL REVIEW
67
Aug 25, 2022
A movie that isn’t quite sure what it’s saying, even as it mesmerizes you with Javier Bardem’s performance.
By Christian Blauvelt FULL REVIEW
60
Jul 25, 2022
Bardem’s performance, as a man who has spent a lifetime hiding his unethical behaviour behind the veneer of patrician affability and who seems to have lost his feel for what’s right and wrong, has a depth and complexity that seems to come from somewhere else.
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60
Jul 22, 2022
An impressively slick and slimy performance from Javier Bardem is the standout selling point for this serviceable if (perhaps appropriately?) workaday satire on corporate corruption and alienated capitalism.
By Mark Kermode FULL REVIEW
50
Jul 22, 2022
It’s a decently constructed piece of fluff that is way too soft to exert any real lasting impact. Yet the reason to see it is for Bardem’s masterful, completely committed lead turn. The real comedy gold comes from his blink-and-you’ll-miss-it expressions and mannerisms that usually come when he’s listening to other people talk.
By David Jenkins FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Básculas Blanco, Crea SGR, Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA), MK2 Films, Orange, Radio Televisión Española (RTVE), Reposado Producciones, Televisió de Catalunya (TV3), The MediaPro Studio
Release Date Aug 26, 2022
Duration 1 h 56 m
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Tagline Javier Bardem es... [Javier Bardem is...]
Website https://cohenmedia.net/product/the-good-boss
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Awards

Goya Awards
• 6 Wins & 20 Nominations
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
• 2 Wins & 13 Nominations
The Platino Awards for Iberoamerican Cinema
• 4 Wins & 11 Nominations

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