Abused workers plot to kill their ‘Bosses’
Available this week on DVD:
“Horrible Bosses”: As a disgruntled employee who is slow on the uptake, Jason Bateman stands out in this frenetic and raunchy comedy about abused workers who plot to kill their employers. With Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis and a surprisingly funny cameo by Colin Farrell and a less funny one by Jamie Foxx. (1:40; R for crude and sexual content, pervasive language and some drug material) • •
“Green Lantern”: This intermittently amusing, interminable affair stars a tongue-in-cheek Ryan Reynolds, an earnest Blake Lively and a scenery-chewing Peter Sarsgaard who never quite emerge from the green gunk encrusting the sets like so much Silly String. (1:45; PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action) • 1/2
“The Tree of Life”: Terrence Malick contemplates the universe and nature, grace and grief and love – and the lives of a family in 1950s Texas – in his beautiful, elliptical, kind of nutty masterpiece. With Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Sean Penn and, yes, CG dinosaurs. (2:18; PG-13 for some thematic material) • • • •
“Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer Summer”: Live-action adaptation of the popular kids’ book series, with an effervescent effort by young Jordana Beatty as the title character. (1:31; PG for some mild rude humor and language) • • 1/2
“Leap Year”: Ho-hum rom-com starring Amy Adams as a marriage-minded American and Matthew Goode as the Irishman who escorts her and her luggage to Dublin so she can propose to her longtime beau. (1:37; PG for sensuality and language) • •
“Zookeeper”: Kevin James stars as the title character, a guy getting questionable romantic advice from the talking animals in his care, in this comedy that smells like the monkey house. (1:44; PG for some rude and suggestive humor, and language) • 1/2
“Beautiful Boy”: A married couple on the verge of separation (Michael Sheen, Maria Bello) are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass shooting at his college, then took his own life. (1:40; R for some language and a scene of sexuality)