The Boss Strains for Laughs

This week at the movies, we’ve got a penance-seeking tycoon (The Boss, starring Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Bell), an amnesiac super-soldier (Hardcore Henry, starring Sharlto Copley and Haley Bennett), and hard-partying ballplayers (Everybody Wants Some!!, starring Blake Jenner and Ryan Guzman). What do the critics have to say?

Also Opening This Week In Limited Release

• , a Brazilian drama about the lives and dreams of nomadic rodeo workers, is at 100 percent.
• , starring Michiel Huisman and Tammy Blanchard in a thriller about a man who is invited to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife and her new husband, but suspects dark ulterior motives, is at 94 percent.
• , a docucumentary about the German-Jewish philosopher behind the concept of “the banality of evil,” is at 86 percent.
• , a musical drama about the artistic and personal collaboration between a ballet dancer and a street musician, is at 80 percent.
• , in which a documentarian seeks to reconcile with her difficult mother, is at 71 percent.
• , starring Jessie Eisenberg and Isabelle Huppert in a drama about a celebrated war photographer whose death still haunts her family, is at 61 percent.
• , an ensemble drama that follows 11 minutes in the lives of several people, is at 56 percent.
• , starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts in a dramedy about a bereaved man who confronts his grief by breaking things, is at 54 percent.
• , starring Anna Kendrick and Sam Rockwell in an action comedy about a woman who falls in love with a vigilante hitman, is at 40 percent.
• , starring Christopher Walken and Amber Heard in a dramedy about an aspiring rocker who lives in the shadow of her father’s professional success, is at 38 percent.