Here’s the thing about bad bosses: they rarely realize they are bad bosses. Even if they’re manipulative, inflexible, uncaring, incompetent, out of touch and generally terrible at virtually every facet of the position, they think they’re doing a fantastic job.
So it goes with Javier Bardem’s charming, hands-on, seemingly caring Blanco in writer-director Fernando León de Aranoa’s wickedly warped comedy/drama “The Good Boss.” As the CEO of Básculas Blanco, a family-owned Spanish company that manufactures industrial scales of all shapes and sizes (and let the metaphors about balance and justice begin), Blanco arrives for work every day with a smile and a good word for everyone.
