‘The Good Boss’ Review: A Workplace Comedy With Javier Bardem as the Friendly Face of Capitalist Corruption

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‘The Good Boss’ Review: A Workplace Comedy With Javier Bardem as the Friendly Face of Capitalist Corruption
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Say you’re hitching a ride at the side of a lonely highway, and two cars slow down at once. One is driven by Anton Chigurh, the taciturn, helmet-haired serial killer played to Oscar-winning e…

.” Seems like an easy choice, though by the end of the latter film, you might be inclined to take your chances with the psychopath.

“Don’t treat me like a boss,” Blanco keeps telling people with a thin gray smile. You shudder to think how fast it would vanish if you did anything but. We first encounter him giving a smarmy pep talk to the employees at his company, a manufacturer of industrial scales — a detail that León de Aranoa will go on to stress for all the metaphorical value it’s worth, as social imbalance abounds in his busy story.

Blanco’s own marriage to world-weary fashion boutique owner Adela hasn’t been sacred for years: Attractive new intern Liliana is evidently the latest in a long line of disposable grooming prospects, proving the icky subtext of his public statement that “relationships here go beyond what it says in the contracts.” Yet their one-night dalliance isn’t as strings-free as Blanco initially assumes.

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