Karen Wilson
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The verbal humor is more a matter of riffing than of delivering neatly defined jokes, but the timing of the cast — notably including Jamie Foxx, as well as the others already mentioned — is impeccable. And [Seth] Gordon and the writers, Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, allow the hilarity to build, escalate and swerve off course. You are in the hands of professionals, which means that, in the ways that count and even when it shouldn’t, “Horrible Bosses” works.

- A.O. Scott on Horrible Bosses [via]

This was my Summer Friday Movie o’ the afternoon and I quite enjoyed its escapist silliness. Charlie Day freaking out to the Ting Tings “That’s Not My Name” is worth the price of admission alone.

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