The Good Boss (Buen Patrón - 2021)

Amy and I liked this workplace satire, in which Javier Bardem runs his family's industrial scale factory in central Spain. She said, "It kept you interested the whole time though it wasn’t about very much." Things do heat up in the second half. Bardem's character tries so hard to be a people-pleaser but it seldom works out the way he wants. Almudena Amor makes a nice feature debut as Liliana AKA "the tall one." 

Fernando León de Aranoa directs from his own screenplay, and the movie is racking up nominations and awards around the globe. Zeltia Montes' jaunty score can be streamed on Apple Music and elsewhere.

Bardem was last blogged for Being the Ricardos. De Aranoa and Montes have piled up plenty of nominations and awards between them, though this is the babetteflix debut for both.

Rotten Tomatoes' critics and audiences love their nice chief, averaging 92 and 86%, respectively.

We rented it on iTunes/Apple TV on December 22.