20 Worst Movies Of 2016 (So Far)

20. The Boss

You'd think that a comedy vehicle written by Melissa McCarthy and directed by her husband Ben Falcone would play to her strengths, but The Boss is a one-note, one-joke caricature comedy that does nothing for McCarthy's image. She's undoubtedly talented, even when she's being profane and outrageous, it's just perhaps best if she leaves the creative control outside of her immediately personal relationships from now on.

As with McCarthy, The Boss casts Peter Dinklage as a despicably bad villain, following on from Pixels' abuse of him and painting no more than a pantomime villain that is utterly beneath him. It's just not funny, and for an incomplex comedy, that's the only thing that could save it.

Strangely, McCarthy feels like she's doing someone a favour here, slumming it briefly to pay back some old debt. But it's her movie, and the blame for the cheap jokes and painfully thin thrills lie at her feet (and her husband's), which is all the more unforgivable given her last two movies (Spy and St Vincent) and how great she was in there.