Comedy

‘The Holiday’ (2006) is impossible, and impossibly cute

“The Holiday” (2006) has a large gap between screenplay quality and overall movie quality. It would be an interesting experiment for someone to read the

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Self-cannibalizing ‘The Monkey’ is more dark than comedic

“The Monkey” is the fourth-biggest Stephen King adaptation of 2025, but it’s the one that most cynically comments on the fact that Hollywood can’t get

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‘Go’ back to 1999 for a night of Xennial cool

“Go” (1999) was vaguely seen at the time as the younger generation’s “Pulp Fiction” (1994). Today we can articulate that as Xennials as compared to

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‘Freakier Friday’: Some things don’t change with age

“Freakier Friday” is a cute sequel to a cute 2003 remake of a cute 1976 movie that has been remade and sequelized several other times

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A century of suspense: All 52 Alfred Hitchcock films, ranked

A century ago, Alfred Hitchcock quietly (indeed, soundlessly) started his career with throwaway rom-dram “The Pleasure Garden.” Fifty-two years and exactly 52 films later, he

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‘Final Girls’ (2015) makes fun of old tropes, unfortunately shepherds new one

“The Final Girls” (2015) continues the grand tradition of making fun of slasher movies, something that has always happened to some degree even within serious

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‘Blues Brothers’ (1980) is an absurdly bombastic crowd-pleaser

“The Blues Brothers” (1980) has such massive set pieces and action sequences that the belly laughs have little chance at being equally big. But it’s

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Gunn’s ‘Peacemaker’ Season 2 is no joke, despite a lighter tone from the DCEU days

James Gunn is improving the quality of DC’s storytelling from within the Warner Bros. machine, ironically by telling an epic story about former government agents

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For those wonton more: ‘The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again’ (1979)

The poster for “The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again” (1979) acknowledges the first film in this two-film franchise and its strengths: The Apple Dumpling Gang

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I like ‘John Candy: I Like Me,’ even if there’s no dirt to dig up

John Candy would seemingly be a horrible documentary subject because there’s no controversy about him. Everyone liked him, and as the title “John Candy: I

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