Comedy
Comedy
Sabrina
A perfectly fine rom-com that pales in comparison to the film it remade.
Blackkklansman
Spike Lee’s complex crime thriller exploring black power, white supremacy, and the nature of political and racial violence in the 1970s begins strongly but ends with a didactic moral lesson that betrays the lack of faith it has in its audience.
The Mad Miss Manton
Funny, charming, witty; it’s a screwball crime comedy about socialites solving a murder, and maybe falling in love along the way. What more is there to say?
Wolfs
Two likable stars recapture the energy of their past collaborations in this crime comedy, neo-noir hangout flick.
Take the Money and Run
Woody Allen’s directorial debut is comedically solid but narratively bereft.
Freebie and the Bean
This early form of the buddy cop comedy has its sensibilities stuck somewhere several decades before what a modern audience likely finds acceptable.
The Egg and I
A distasteful, mean-spirited, unfunny comedy about the hellish marriage between a spineless sad-sack and an oblivious, egg-obsessed weirdo.
Gimme the Loot
This talk-heavy, Queens based indie failed to engage me in its meandering plot and abrasive dialogue.
Two For The Road
This early entry into the “decades of a relationship boiled down into a movie” genre has some clever ideas and memorable moments, but makes some of the characters too unlikable for the piece to really work.
Brigsby Bear
Just about the best movie ever made about a fictional TV show created to teach life lessons to a kidnapping victim.
Crossing Delancey
Light on grand romantic gestures but long in genuine caring, this hyper-specific rom-com about the Jewish experience in NYC has plenty of soft romantic energy for anyone to enjoy.
Bullseye!
A crime comedy whose broad and unfunny antics are a crime against comedy.