The Good Boss

The owner of a family-run factory in a Spanish provincial town[7] meddles in the lives of his employees in an attempt to win an award for business excellence.

The Good Boss was produced by Reposado PC, The Mediapro Studio and Básculas Blanco AIE, with the participation of RTVE, TV3 and Orange.[11] Filming began in Spain in October 2020 and wrapped in December 2020.[13][14][15]

The film premiered at the San Sebastián International Film Festival on 21 September 2021.[1][16] Distributed by Tripictures,[1][17] it was then released theatrically in Spain on 15 October 2021.[1]

Cohen Media Group acquired US rights to the film.[18]

The film has an 89 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on nine reviews.[19]

Guy Lodge of Variety gave the film a positive review and wrote, "Fernando León de Aranoa's corporate satire is too long and languidly paced to pull off its farcical inclinations, but it gets by on its star's magnetism."[3]

Jordan Mintzer of The Hollywood Reporter also gave the film a positive review and wrote, "Slickly entertaining, considering its rather weighty subject matter..."[2]

Javier Zurro of El Español deemed the film to be the best Aranoa film since the 2002 Mondays in the Sun and the best Spanish comedy in (many) years, a genre dominated for some time now by either family comedies or remakes of international titles, generally lacking in original proposals.[20]

Raquel Hernández Luján of HobbyConsolas gave the film 90 out of 100 points, deeming it "excellent", praising the "sharp script", the (actors') direction, and the "careful staging".[21]

Quim Casas of El Periódico de Catalunya considered the film to be "a good tragicomedy of social criticism that could well be the counterpart to Mondays in the Sun".[22]

Jonathan Holland of Screen Daily considered the film to be "slickly-made and entertaining, but ultimately a little déjà vu".[7] Plotwise, he deemed the film to be "as smooth and efficient as a well-run factory".[7]

• List of Spanish films of 2021
• List of submissions to the 94th Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film
• List of Spanish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

• The Good Boss at IMDb
• The Good Boss at ICAA's Catálogo de Cinespañol
• The Good Boss at Rotten Tomatoes