Movies in the Comedy genre

Materialists, Celine Song’s follow-up to the sublime Past Lives, is a rom-com on Prozac. Weighed down by a flat performance from Dakota Johnson, the movie shifts into low-gear after an upbeat, promising first act. Johnson’s lack of chemistr...

The older he has gotten, the more offbeat his films have become. Now, to be clear, Wes Anderson has never been a conventional filmmaker. His movies have always appealed more to niche audiences than mainstream ones. (My favorite of his oeuvre, ...

In a way, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life feels like a case of bait-and-switch. By putting the celebrated 19th century author’s name in such a prominent position, there might be an expectation that the film would be a little more Austen-centric tha...

When it comes to simple favors, the last thing that we need is another one. It would have been different if the first film, 2018’s A Simple Favor, had been deserving of a sequel rather than being just another failed comedy/thriller that only a fe...

While watching Chris Farley, still at the top of his game, perform in Tommy Boy, it’s easy to ignore how fundamentally bad the overall movie is. A card-carrying member of the bloated, frat-boy comedies that plagued theaters during the early 1990...

With a title like Death of a Unicorn, it’s perhaps unsurprising that Alex Scharfman’s film has a distinct Yorgos Lanthimos vibe (keeping in mind that Lanthimos made something called The Killing of a Sacred Deer). Although Scharfman doesn’t em...

There are times when Novocaine is a blast – mostly when it’s relying on the easygoing charisma of actor Jack Quaid, leaning into chemistry between Quaid and Amber Midthunder, or having fun with some of the more unconventional aspects of the le...

During the early part of his career, filmmaker Richard Linklater had a fondness for freeform films that were strong on setting and character interaction and light on narrative. His first three professional productions – his calling-card Slackers...

The Monkey is in possession of a great trailer that the actual film doesn’t quite live up to. Nevertheless, Osgood Perkins’ radical reimagining of the Stephen King short story is plenty entertaining in its own right for those with a sufficient...

At some point, Universal Pictures apparently recognized that the fourth Bridget Jones chapter lacks an audience. As a result, instead of opening it in U.S. theaters, where it likely would have sunk without a trace, they pivoted and dumped it onto ...