Tag: comedy

Rian Johnson's new movie, Knives Out, is an old-fashioned whodunit, and such movies tend to hinge on the acuteness of their cleverness

In Soderbergh’s own body of work, The Laundromat most closely resembles something like Contagion, though with a lot more lightness and sense of humour.

Good Boys is funnier than most comedies but that is more telling of the climate of contemporary comedy than it is many virtues on the part of this film.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood would have been better had the final act showed the same understanding of what was working as everything that preceded it.

Late Night is an easy watch that fluctuates congenially in quality from minute to minute that would have benefitted from perhaps a few more drafts.

Paul Downs Colaizzo's Brittany Runs a Marathon does meander a bit and spending time on tangents that don’t seem to fully pay off.

In Fabric loses us in Strickland's desire to invoke purposeful weirdness and wins us back with fleeting moments of promise in which clarity seems possible.

Blinded by the Light is about Bruce Springsteen and there's no way in for anyone who doesn't already care about the singer songwriter.