It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Wonderfully judged, dry-as-a-bone comedy from Lars Von Trier. A likeably eccentric bunch of desk jockeys are led by an excellent central performance from Jens Albinus (Dancer in the Dark, The Idiots), with strong support from Peter Gantzler (Smilla's Feeling For Snow); Iben Hjejle (High Fidelity) and Sofie Gråbøl (her from in the jumper from The Killing). The story is satisfyingly complex and suitably farcical, and there are touches of simple genius throughout, from nicely timed chapter headings in the form of Von Trier's sardonic narration, to the 'careless' editing that keeps the film grounded in 'reality'. Albinus has a lovely comic touch, but LVT is the star, more comedy please, Herr Von Trier!

I didn't like 'The Boss of It All', I didn't like it at all. Never before has there been so many ways to make movies – fundamentally to me a movie remains a wonderful cinematic experience – This film doesn't look good, it is distracting and ugly... like today's TV. Separating the relationship between director and camera is just a silly exercise. In my view, in this case, the coherent and the interdependent process seams contrived and arbitrary. Lars von Trier explained that he wonted to make a "light comedy, no message, not even a question or anything, a kind of a feel-good film"; but to me he fails dismally. In the end one may just wonder how long he had to work on post-production, cutting and fixing this flunk. Lars still remains a very intelligent and talented director who loves film making; so he takes risks that don't always work. We all know that love can be fleeting but is worth pursuing... let's hope he get's it back together somehow.

With Lars Von Trier's "The Boss of It All" (2006) welcome to an odd dozen characters in search of meaning. Here is Kafka Land, Luigi Pirandello Place. "The Boss of It All" puts the audience in a modern cube of a building that could be in New Jersey or Denmark in any modern, widget-selling company. "The Boss of It All" is comic desert not office comedy. Here are the delights of the absurd without its fun, its articulate melancholy, or the slapstick darkness of "Waiting for Godot". In "The Boss of It All" business is sheer busyness. One critic @: "http://www.filmcritic.com/" put the film's core issue very well: "careerism and the business world have surpassed brutality and arrived in the realm of hostile idiocy." Yes. But is this not dishonest on Von Trier's part? Isn't he in the movie industry? This film aches with nihilism. "The Boss of It All" confirms Camus's remark: "The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact...we are suffering from nihilism."

Finally a breath of fresh air, after being let down by several of the long awaited features of my favorite directors (such as INLAND EMPIRE and The Fountain, both of which were good but not adequate considering the directors) von Trier delivers.After the heavy handed Manderlay and Dogville von Trier decided he needed to take a "dogme pill" to recharge his batteries and what we have is this fine gem. While this is a comedy it is a very different kind of comedy, it is a self aware comedy but even more than that it is a comedy that is also willing to take on more abstract concepts.Just like the late Ingmar Bergman, von Trier has a real knack for comedy even though he hardly goes in that direction. The basic premise of the film is that an actor is hired on as a fictional boss, conjured up by the real boss who wanted someone to hide behind. What adds a fine twist to that is that most of the employees feel that they know the boss to some degree because they have received letters and emails from him throughout the companies history, leading to some very funny situations.What I love about von Trier's films is that they do not ask permission, and they do not apologize for being what they are. Von Trier is a bold artist and is the only consistently brilliant filmmaker working today.