“The Good Boss” is playing at the M.V. Film Center on Thursday, Sept. 29, and Friday, Sept. 30, with Léon de Aranoa directing and Javier Bardem starring. There isn’t much that’s good about Bardem’s Julio Blanco, the boss in this film that’s a satire on the corporate world. Bardem does a terrific job as the […]
Writer-director Fernando Leon de Aranoa s biting anti-corporate satire "The Good Boss" is the kind of movie that can have you snickering one minute and squirming the next. It s a dark workplace comedy with a subtle edge; one driven by a tour de force performance from Javier Bardem, whose smooth-talking charisma-rich presence turns megalomania, duplicity, and self-serving passive-aggression into a captivating image you can t turn away from.
At this year’s Academy Awards Javier Bardem should have been nominated for The Good Boss (El buen patron). Instead, he was a Best Actor nominee for the uneven