Comedy
Comedy
Love, Guaranteed
My worst fears, that this movie would be disappointingly cliche, proved charitable in the wake of this ninety minutes of wasted potential.
Nine to Five
A good screwball comedy that delivers on everything I like about the genre with plenty of fresh ideas to boot.
Sullivan’s Travels
An extremely funny farce about filmmaking, comedy, and (oddly enough) the great depression, whose only major fault is a slightly uneven tone.
Jungle Cruise
An attempt to capture the magic of pulp adventure movies of the past that instead creates something tragically soulless and derivative.
Scooby Doo
This dated adaptation may ooze the early 2000s out of every pore, but is a remarkably fun time regardless.
The Gold Rush
The film Charlie Chaplin most wanted to be remembered for doesn’t disappoint.
The Final Girls
Sometimes funny, sometimes soulful, this send-up of summer camp horror films is good, but falls just shy of greatness.
Noelle
A fun but derivative-feeling Christmas movie whose one big differentiating idea is a total dud.
About Time
Airtight internal logic and a deep connection to what it means to be human aid this genre-bending time travel fantasy navigate in, and out of, the structures of a traditional romantic comedy.
Flower Drum Song
This overlooked Rodgers and Hammerstein adaptation hits (almost) all the right notes.
10 Items or Less
Too short to let the story and characters develop, too aimless for me to really care.
Dear Dictator
A tragic waste of Michael Caine’s talent.