Comedy Rated R
“…about as small as movies get, yet often, unexpectedly, as moving.
My choice for best coming-of-age movie of all time, comedic or otherwise. Director Wes Anderson, working from a script he wrote with Owen Wilson, mastered his unique craft with just his second film, a heartfelt and hilarious story about a bizarrely precocious prep-school student named Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman, painfully, perfectly awkward) who learns to
Comedy Rated PG-13
“The filmmakers must have known the concept was a loser fairly early on, but they stubbornly plow ahead anyway. Sitting through the movie is like watching a car careen through a stop sign.
“Billy Bob Thornton is still wearing his Bad Santa outfit in Mr. Woodcock…
Comedy Rated NR
“Everything Hulot does is elaborately and unnecessarily complicated, which means every moment is ripe for comedy.”
“Chances are Hollywood won’t be making Dumb and Dumbererest, so The Brothers Solomon will have to do.
Before his sweet Amelie, director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (and co-director Marc Caro) made this surreal black comedy about a post-apocalyptic butcher who has had to improvise in order to stay in business. Yes, I mean cannibalism. Despite the bleak subject matter, Delicatessen is stuffed with magical, life-affirming moments – the movie drips with blood and irony.
Harvard Man opens on the image of a nude sculpture by Auguste Rodin, and writer-director James Toback seems to think he’s offering up a similar convergence of art and eroticism. Instead, this talky and supremely silly morality tale about a Harvard basketball player (Adrian Grenier) who gets caught up in web of drugs, sex and
Comedy Rated G
“…makes the fatal and ironic mistake of talking too much.
Comedy Rated PG
Before it succumbs to schmaltz, this well-meaning comedy from Chinese director Zhang Yimou works as a nice fable about a con man who can’t help but do good. Zhao Benshan stars as an aging bachelor whose desperate desire to marry leads him to a variety of George Costanza-like schemes, including a claim to be the
