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Booksmart (2019)96%. #4. Critics Consensus: Fast-paced, funny, and fresh, Booksmart does the seemingly impossible by adding a smart new spin to the coming-of-age comedy. Synopsis: Academic overachievers Amy and Molly thought keeping their noses to the grindstone gave them a leg up on their high...
PG | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family. A physician who can talk to animals embarks on an adventure to find a legendary island with a young apprentice and a crew of strange pets. Director: Stephen Gaghan | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen, Jim Broadbent. Votes: 71,193 | Gross: $77.05M.
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One of the biggest surprises of 2019 for me was the superhero comedy Shazam! Anchored by a soulful performance by Asher Angel as Billy Bastion, a foster child with the magical ability to transform into a muscle-bound adult superhero, the film manages to explore virtually every comedic aspect of its premise for maximum jokes. It’s like Big with a sl...
Olivia Wilde came out of the gate swinging into her directorial career with a bold and ambitious teen comedy that delivers unforgettable characters by treating them with bottomless empathy and constantly dropping them into wild shenanigans to keep the laughs up. Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein star as ride-or-die BFFs; a pair of consummate overa...
“Oh no, are we in a musical?” asks Lucy (Elizabeth Banks) moments before Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi (Tiffany Haddish) bursts into a joyful tune about how she’s definitely not evil. Lucy asks the question with some disdain, a winkingly self-aware dig at how older audiences may react when taking their kids to The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part and realizin...
Jim Jarmusch’sThe Dead Don't Die is a polarizing pic, mostly (if not especially) because it’s a self-aware, meta zombie movie brimming with deadpan humor from the dude least likely to make that kind of movie. But let it be known that surprise turn from the auteur works.Jarmusch had previously dipped into the supernatural well with the thoroughly su...
Long Shot is a weird movie, but then again Jonathan Levine makes weird movies. He used the zombie genre to tell a love story in Warm Bodies, crafted a heartbreaking “cancer comedy” in 50/50, and turned in a drug-fueled Christmas movie in the supremely underrated The Night Before. But Long Shot is basically The American President meets a Seth Rogenc...
Under all of his absurdities, director Harmony Korine has a heart. In the case of The Beach Bum, that heart buried under a fair bit of surf and sand but believe you me, it’s there. Korine’s March 2019 release stars Matthew McConaughey as layabout poet Moondog, a Margaritaville wannabe who probably smells like a mix of Banana Boat and Hennessey at a...
Yes, sure, Ari Aster's Midsommar is a dark and disturbing horror movie about confronting grief, trauma, and codependence. It also happens to be hilarious. That's part of what makes it so special, and such a caddy-corner sophomore effort from the Hereditary filmmaker after his relentlessly bleak and crushing feature debut (though that film too had m...
Brittany Runs a Marathon is not the movie you think it is, in the very best way. The film stars Jillian Bell as an overweight woman who sets out to train for and run the New York marathon as a way to get in shape, which she also believes will change her life for the better. Changes do come, but they’re a mix of positive and negative as Bell’s chara...
The story ofRudy Ray Moore, portrayed here by Eddie Murphy in his best performance in a very long time, is a deftly made blend of hysterical comedy and occasional pathos. Rudy, a failed emcee and record store manager, is inspired by a local bum in 1970s Los Angeles to reinvent himself. Stealing and polishing this poor sap’s material, Rudy becomes D...
All I can say about One Cut of the Dead is to know as little about it as possible before going in. Since it's an indie Japanese movie that hasn't suffered from non-stop marketing, you can do that! The brief tease is that the movie follows a film crew that's filming a zombie movie when they have to fend off zombies, but that's really just the tip of...
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Best-Reviewed Comedies 2019. In a year in which a number of the best comedies were genre blends – comedy-slash-dramas The Farewell and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, comedy-slash-horror Once Cut of the Dead – it was a pure and unmitigated laugh-fest that took out top place for the critics.
Sep 24, 2019 · Good Boys. These coming-of-age movies are getting younger and younger, but the Seth Rogen-produced Good Boys starring Jacob Tremblay is a perfectly matured film to enter into the canon. Good Boys ...
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BEST COMEDY MOVIES OF 2019. 1. Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy. In Jumanji: The Next Level, the gang is back but the game has changed. As they return to rescue one of their own, the players will have to brave parts unknown from arid deserts to snowy mountains, to escape the world's most dangerous game.
Apr 12, 2024 · Late Night is a 2019 American comedy-drama film directed by Nisha Ganatra. A Late-night talk show host, Katerine Newbury (Emma Thompson) is about to lose her show but teams up with a new female staff writer (Mindy Kaling) to save the program. More Late Night. #7 of 24 on The Best 2019 Movies That Pass The Bechdel Test.
