Movies in the Comedy/Thriller genre
History has labeled Susan Seidelman’s Desperately Seeking Susan as “a Madonna film” but a more accurate descriptor might be “a Rosanna Arquette film.” Indeed, at the time Seidelman was casting the film, Madonna was a footnote in the musi...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-07-26
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity, Violence)
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
Director: Susan Seidelman
Cast: Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn, ...
Maybe at some point, the idea sounded good. Funny, perhaps. Clever even. A fish-out-of-water comedy drenched in enough blood to earn it a solid R-rating. But if there was any potential in the initial inspiration, it was frittered away. J. Michael ...
U.S. Release Date: 2023-04-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Cast: Toni Collette, Monica Bellucci, Eduardo Scarpetta, ...
With its whiplash-inducing tonal inconsistencies and sloppily assembled narrative, Amsterdam often feels like a pastiche of (take your pick) Monty Python, The Coen Brothers, or Wes Anderson grafted onto a crime caper/espionage thriller with a ...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2022-12-06
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore)
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
Director: David O. Russell
Cast: Christian Bale, Rami Malek, Zoe Saldana, ...
When Robert Redford announced his retirement from acting in August 2018, it appeared that The Old Man & the Gun would be his swansong and, at least in terms of tone and content, it’s hard to imagine a better way for the veteran actor to bow ...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-10-05
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
Director: David Lowery
Cast: Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, ...
The biggest crime committed by The Spy Who Dumped Me isn’t its dearth of humor or reliance on an unimaginative espionage plot but the way it wastes the talents of its leads, Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon. Their easy rapport, a staple of any wo...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-08-03
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
Director: Susanna Fogel
Cast: Mila Kunis, Kate McKinnon, Justin Theroux, ...
With Carter & June, director/co-writer Nicholas Kalikow is aiming for a post-Tarantino thriller that incorporates violence and humor into a story about lowlifes, gangsters, and other assorted bottom-feeders, some of whom wear badges and c...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-05-18
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
Director: Nicholas Kalikow
Cast: Michael Raymond-James, Samaire Armstrong, Timothy Omundson, ...
Just call it Grumpy Old Crooks. This quasi-remake of a 1979 caper film (which starred George Burns, Art Carney, and Lee Strasberg) makes wholesale changes to the structure of its forebear – unfortunately few of them are for the better. An in...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-04-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
Director: Zach Braff
Cast: Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Alan Arkin, ...
Keeping up with the Joneses (not to be confused with the better 2010 film The Joneses) is a paint-by-numbers, creatively bankrupt “comedy” emerging from a studio system that has largely forgotten what it means to be genuinely funny. Lazil...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-10-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
Director: Greg Mottola
Cast: Zach Galifianakis, Isla Fisher, Jon Hamm, ...
When one thinks of a Martin Scorsese film, the first images that come to mind are dark, violent, serious ones. His most celebrated movies are Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, and The Departed - all intense, uncompromising samples of cinema at ...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity, Drugs, Violence)
Genre: COMEDY/THRILLER
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, ...
With a title like Pain & Gain and Michael Bay at the helm, this review looked like a great opportunity for a vitriolic screed, but that's not going to happen. Defying expectations, Pain & Gain not only represents one of the best movies Bay has made...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-04-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity,Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: COMEDY/THRILLER
Director: Michael Bay
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, ...