Barbershop: The Next Cut

Cutting hair and cutting up

"...shootin’ the shit again at Calvin’s Barbershop on the South Side of Chicago in this serious-minded but laugh-out-loud second..."

April 22, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Spy

The Paul Feig/Melissa McCarthy comedy onslaught continues with a Bond parody

"...Mission: Impossible-like hijinks. McCarthy gets top billing this time out, and although her Walter Mitty-esque, CIA analyst-cum-inadvertent superspy feels..."

June 5, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

What If

In this romantic comedy, men and women sort out the differences between love and friendship.

"...directed by Michael Dowse, whose last film was the foul-mouthed, good-natured hockey comedy Goon, What If stars Daniel Radcliffe..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Fluffy Movie

Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias performs in this comedy concert film.

"...of everyday sounds, Iglesias is always charming and frequently laugh-out-loud funny...."

Aug. 1, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

Monsters University

This sequel is a prequel about the school days of the future Monsters, Inc. employees, Sulley and Mike.

"...like a fat thumb – and made a hero out of him, too. A dozen years later, the movie..."

June 21, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Mansome

Will Arnett and Jason Bateman are our guides in this Morgan Spurlock documentary that looks at men's relationship with their body hair in contemporary America.

"...Looking to figure out what exactly it means to be a man in..."

May 18, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

American Reunion

Thirteen years after American Pie jump-started sexual innuendo for a new generation, this sequel is the best one in the series.

"...minor melodrama and well-penned dialogue for all involved. It's laugh-out-loud funny in all the right ways...."

April 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Your Highness

This vulgar medieval travesty is awfully good fun when it works.

"...gags, then Your Highness just might make you laugh out loud. I know I did, but then again, I..."

April 8, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Elektra Luxx

Carla Gugino heads up this daffy film as the eponymous porn star, now retired, pregnant, and prone to self-reflection and the occasional moment of doubt.

"...its predecessor, Women in Trouble, an odd but often laugh-out-loud funny mix of absurdist humor, raunchy backstories, and genuine..."

March 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Army experiments in the paranormal become a warped platform on which George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey run narrative circles.

"...factual in this fictionalized take on Jon Ronson’s book about Army experiments in the paranormal because it all sounds..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

This French box-office sensation is a send-up of Sixties spy films.

"...aka OSS 117 (Dujardin), to Egypt to discover the whereabouts of vanished agent Jack Jefferson (Lefebvre). OSS 117 is,..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Space Chimps

This animated, sci-fi romantic comedy starring anthropomorphized chimpanzees is a lot funnier than you might expect.

"...Ray's Ape Sh!t gambit – anything but the frequently laugh-out-loud snarkiness of this (admittedly) uneven but far from awful..."

July 25, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Foot Fist Way

Faux documentary about a strip-mall kung-fu sensei without the sense to come in out of the pain has moments of laugh-out-loud greatness but also much dopiness.

"...decade's serious subgenre overkill. While this ultra-low-budget faux doc about strip-mall kung-fu sensei Fred Simmons (McBride alternating between heartfelt..."

June 6, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Skeleton Key

A top-notch cast is mostly wasted in this atmospheric but prosaic hoodoo spooker.

"...durable Rowlands never quite becomes fully believable as a Southern hoodoo practitioner, and it's actually rather sad to see..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Devil's Rejects

A viciously entertaining psycho-road-movie-revenge-‘n’-wreckage-romance.

"...accurate Warren Oates. What’s not to love? Zombie’s 2003 outing, helmed after handling directing duties on a number of..."

July 22, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kung Fu Hustle

Stephen Chow's chop-socky offering is a manic, hyperentertaining blend of classic kung-fu tropes, special effects, and outrageous comedy.

"...fu tropes (some might say clichés), special effects, and outrageous comedy. Unlike Shaolin Soccer, however, this time out Chow’s..."

April 22, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Assassination of Richard Nixon

First-time director Niels Mueller tells "the mad story of a true man" in this tragic portrait of Sam Bicke, who tried to fly an airplane into the White House in 1974.

"...on the facts some, but the tagline gets it about right: An out-of-work salesman named Sam Bicke did in..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Deliver Us From Eva

"...Whitley. The fact that there’s little new in the roundabout urban updating of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Death to Smoochy

"...lifted whole from Being John Malkovich). The result comes out loud, brash, vulgar, and considerably entertaining. Death to Smoochy..."

March 29, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Enemy at the Gates

"...A cat-and-mouse battle of skill and wits in a bombed-out factory shell forms the centerpiece of Enemy at the..."

March 16, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Galaxy Quest

A parody of Gene Roddenberry's TV world and its rabid fans.

"...with a minimum of cheese and a surplus of laugh-out-loud moments. The premise is sweet: The stars of the..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Toy Story 2

"...was. That aside, Lasseter's sequel is an engaging, often laugh-out-loud funny reuniting of the original's major players with a..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human

"...Wyatt, Carmen Electra and Jack Kehler. A faux documentary about human reproduction from an extraterrestrial point of view, this..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Big Daddy

"...to a sizable insurance claim, spends his time loafing about his East Side loft when not working a sporadic..."

June 25, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Half-Baked

Cameos from Steven Wright, Willie Nelson, Tommy Chong, and Janeane Garofalo help stoke this addled comic premise about selling pot to raise a buddy's bail.

"...can count on a summer glut of similar fare about lovable hemphounds whose roach-burned apartment sofas are the launching..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Sense and Sensibility

The lively and funny screenplay adaptation of Jane Austen written by Emma Thompson, who also stars, was rewarded with an Oscar.

"...I'm willing to count my blessings and not fret about their source. Sense and Sensibility is a wonderfully fashioned..."

Dec. 15, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wolf

"...moon (howling, of course) make you want to laugh out loud: the obvious poetry they were aiming for just..."

June 24, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Charlie's Ear

"...up, the cleaner's neglected to get that annoying stain out of his trousers, and so on. To cap it..."

May 20, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Under Suspicion

"...have missed some of the basics. Oh, it starts out alright. It's set in Brighton in the Fifties when..."

July 31, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

The Naked Gun Two 1/2: The Smell of Fear

"...trailers. There are wonderful bits that make me laugh out loud or worse, drive me to annoy my friends..."

July 5, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

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