Comedy
Comedy
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
This television adaptation is stylish as hell, but offers little more to justify its existence.
Mystic Pizza
This so-so prelude to the 90s indie movement has many great performances all trying to save a mediocre script.
Safety Last!
For my money, maybe the best silent comedy of all time.
The Way of the Dragon
This dated action classic offers little to the delight the modern viewer.
The Sea Beast
The Sea Beast is a movie of two halves. The first half is superb. The second is disappointingly poor.
Father of the Bride
A simpler, subtler take on the machinations of planning a wedding (in the 1950s) that offers plenty of light and frothy comedy to accompany its sweet and sentimental core.
10
A decent but dated precursor to much better films about childish men who learn it’s about time for them to grow up.
Police Story
An almost unbelievable amount of career defining action more than compensates for the flimsy story and hit or miss comedy.
Mr. Malcolm’s List
An adequate romp for those dying to see more regency romances, but not sharp enough to carry the interest of anyone else.
Top Hat
This Astaire and Rogers classic has dancing near or at the level of their other best collaborations, with a story that hangs together better, to boot.
The Gay Divorcee
In a departure from the other Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers pictures I’ve seen, this movie’s strengths were in its script and its weaknesses were in its dancing.
Breaking Away
How resonant you find this coming of age sports movie, about growing up working class in the 70s, may be tied more to your personal experiences than the strength of the storytelling.