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2020 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live-Action
An uneven selection does not represent the best narrative shorts
"...Hitchcock’s Rear Window but quickly morphs into a quirky, funny, and ultimately tremendously moving meditation on marriage, maturity, and..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Knives Out
Cunning if slight murder mystery revives the whodunit
"...Gekko’s philosophy: Greed is definitely good when it’s this funny...."

Nov. 29, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Ready or Not
Party games will be the death of Samara Weaving in this raucous black comedy
"...is the film everyone had hoped for: scathing, bloody, funny, and hugely entertaining. The script by Guy Busick (who..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Dora and the Lost City of Gold
Nickelodeon’s animated star gets a charming live-action revamp
"...than anything she’s encountered in South America, and the funny, fleet script by Nicholas Stoller (The Muppets, The Five-Year..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Elizabeth Warren Leads “Conversations on America's Future”
First day of SXSW/Texas Trib collab rolls out 2020-themed one-on-ones
"...and take your pictures,” Warren quipped. (She’s actually quite funny.)..."

March 10, 2019 News Post by Mike Clark-Madison

Holmes & Watson
The Step Brothers bros get literary
"...inconsequential. More to the point, it’s simply not terribly funny, with the Step Brothers duo of Ferrell and Reilly..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bumblebee
Transformers spin-off is (checks notes) wait ... good?
"...Director Knight keeps the film lively, funny, and – perhaps most importantly – easy to follow...."

Dec. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

What They Had
Authentic Alzheimer's drama steers just clear of soap opera
"...subplots surface and threaten to turn this sensitive yet funny drama into predictable soap opera territory. (The film’s goopy..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bodied
Battle rap comedy takes no prisoners
"...Is Bodied a comedy? It’s wildly laugh-out-loud funny at times, for sure, but this send-up of the..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

All About Nina
Mary Elizabeth Winstead excels as a comic in freefall
"...merely some edgy, caustic rom-com: This is a seriously funny examination of a life wracked with pain, and the..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Sisters Brothers
A murderers’ row of great actors in this contract killer Western comedy
"...in how it contrasts to his brother Charlie’s (Phoenix, funny and limber with the freedom of being second-billed). Charlie..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Predator
The Predator needs an editor
"...The Predator offers some popcorn thrills, grisly deaths, and funny one-liners. But the film tries entirely too hard to..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Happytime Murders
Puppet comedy crime caper is less Feebles, more just feeble
"...what does this movie have to say beyond it’s funny to watch children’s show characters swear?..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Crazy Rich Asians
Joyful rom-com puts the American fish out of water among Asia's 1%
"...consumption of the one-percent, and it gets some wickedly funny jabs in at the fabulously wealthy. But it isn’t..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Spy Who Dumped Me
Kunis and McKinnon run to Europe, but forget to pack jokes
"...has a nutsack sight gag it deems so irresistibly funny it replays it in the closing credits...."

Aug. 3, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Blindspotting
Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal astound in this perfect state of the union story
"...Funny, vibrant, insightful, tragic, achingly timely, and yet with an..."

July 27, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Incredibles 2
Pixar's superhero family returns with familiar but still welcome action
"...the first. Nevertheless, Incredibles 2 serves up that smart, funny, and eye-popping spectacle that viewers have come to expect..."

June 15, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Generic Ensemble Company's Carmen
This devised work shares the name of Bizet's opera, but it has its own story to tell, one that's modern, irreverent and funny
"...proctological exam. It's rude. It's irreverent. And it's really funny...."

May 25, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Overboard
Unexpected remake of the Eighties' most questionable rom-com
"...directing) seems to lack original director Garry Marshall’s innate funny bone. As a vehicle to further introduce Mexican movie..."

May 11, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Chappaquiddick
The car crash that changed America.
"...he intends to wear to Mary Jo’s funeral, it’s funny because there’s something comical about the absurdity of his..."

April 13, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Tyler Perry's Acrimony
Tyler Perry takes on the "woman scorned" trope.
"...at scenes I highly doubt were intended to be funny), Perry implies that not only does she belong there,..."

April 6, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

The Hideout Theatre’s Local on the Eights
Improvised local news for the fictional town of DeWitt turned up some big stories (and funny ones) before and behind the camera
"...So, was it funny? Yes, it was super funny. And entertaining, too...."

Dec. 22, 2017 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

A Bad Moms Christmas
The raunchy moms are back with some Christmas spirit(s)
"...dick jokes and slapstick humor, the antics are fairly funny, in that you-know-what-you’re-getting-yourself-into kind of way (both Bad Moms..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The director of The Lobster returns with another salvo
"...taut family psycho-thriller along the lines of Michael Haneke’s Funny Games. The film is not as bizarre as Lanthimos’..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Infinity Baby
Babies (young and old) who can't grow up
"...broke as the “ultimate” infinity baby. It’s an extremely funny and caustic film, but when it tempers that with..."

Sept. 15, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Trip to Spain
Exquisite food with a side of comedy and pathos
"...Though The Trip to Spain is never not funny, it feels comparatively a little dramatically thin – until..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
The animated gang return to save their park from an evil mayor
"...Nut Job 2 is colorful, kid-friendly, and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny. ’Nuff said...."

Aug. 11, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Landline
The team behind Obvious Child is back
"...the camera. There’s seldom a dull moment when this funny and bright woman is onscreen. In a nod to..."

Aug. 4, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Big Sick
The rom-com is dead! Long live the rom-com!
"...compact first act, Kumail and Emily blaze through very funny, and very sweet, new-relationship markers: the pillow talk and..."

June 30, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Rough Night
Girls gone murderously wild
"...disgusting, as raunchy, as gross, and yes – as funny – as men in any hard-R-rated comedy showing at..."

June 23, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

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