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Tag: Comedy

Burn After Reading (2008)

Comedy Rated R

"And you thought No Country for Old Men was nihilistic."

Airplane! (1980)

Comedy Rated PG

Taking the disaster movies of the 1970s as their starting point, the writing-directing team of Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker invented a gag reel around the story of former pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays) who boards a commercial plane hoping to win back his stewardess girlfriend (Julie Hagerty). When all three pilots get

Hamlet 2 (2008)

Comedy Rated PG-13

“There is some really dark stuff going on underneath all the outrageous goofiness…

House Bunny, The (2008)

Comedy Rated PG-13

"Anna Faris has taken a lot of hits for Hollywood, most of them literal."

Rocker, The (2008)

Comedy Rated PG-13

"It can be hard to explain what makes a star, but it’s fairly easy to identify a performer who doesn’t have that mysterious star stuff."

Pineapple Express (2008)

Comedy Rated R

“…has a lot of buzz-killing violence for a pothead comedy.

Tropic Thunder (2008)

Comedy Rated R

“Ben Stiller has made a lot of Hollywood junk over the past few years, and Tropic Thunder feels like an attempt to cleanse these projects from his system.

Step Brothers (2008)

Comedy Rated R

Step Brothers isn’t as inspired as Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly’s previous collaboration with director Adam McKay, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, yet it has its own deranged sense of glee. As grown men whose lives of sponging come to an end when their respective single parents meet and marry, Ferrell and

Baghead (2008)

Comedy Rated R

“…you’re not quite sure what to make of Baghead, though in a good way.

Meet Dave (2008)

Comedy Rated PG

"It’s about time this guy realized he doesn’t need those Norbit prosthetics."

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Weapons (2025)

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“ The Pied Piper was on my mind throughout Weapons…”

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Drama Rated NR

“… the quintessential backstage Gothic noir.”

Heartburn (1986)

Drama Rated R

“The audience is never fully let in on either character’s interior life, as we skip from incident to incident.”


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