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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Bone-dry but completely assured, both in its visual strategy and its wry deconstruction of the workplace comedy genre. Read more
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: Scenes are thus punctuated by as many jump cuts as punch lines--a technique that amplifies the sly humor. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Comedy, thy name isn't Lars von Trier. However, the abstract concept of "comedy," in Brechtian quotation marks, makes for an interesting experiment for cinema's reigning provocateur. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Who knew the man had a workplace comedy in him, let alone one this sharp? Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: A sly, clever office comedy that also finds humor in long-standing tensions between Danes and Icelanders. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: This satire of empty-suit capitalism has scalding moments, but most of it suggests Being There meets The Office gibberized into theater of the absurd. Read more
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: In the humor department, The Boss of It All elicits few belly laughs but lots of thoughtful chuckles. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: The Boss of It All turns out to have quite a lot to say, actually, about loyalty, the temptation of the almighty dollar, and corporate buck-passing as a kind of Olympic sport. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: The fact that it is very funny will relieve the frustration of probing further for insight. Read more
V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Funny is not a word often used to describe von Trier's output, but Boss definitely is that, thanks to a breezy script and a bright cast. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: The one last saving grace of this only marginally entertaining film is its refusal to avail itself of an ironically heroic sentimentality set up by its own narrative trajectory. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Not quite funny enough, and it's undermined by its camera technique. Read more
Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times: Perverse humor pervades the films of Lars von Trier. Read more
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: Here's hoping Lars von Trier's retirement will be brief. Cinema needs meddlesome provocateurs. An occasional stone in the shoe keeps us alert. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: How fitting for the film that a computer is calling the shots. But how disappointing for us that it can't punch up a script. Read more