Comedy
Amanda review – peculiar, endearing Italian comedy
A young woman obsessed with past wrongs tries to rekindle a childhood friendship in Carolina Cavalli’s quirky debut feature
Wendy Ide
04, Jun, 2023 @11:00 AM
The Old Man Movie: Lactopalypse! review – brilliantly weird Estonian stop-motion
This animated combination of cynicism and grotesquerie has as much energy as Aardman and double the WTF quotient
Phil Hoad
30, May, 2023 @8:00 AM
‘Deeper than a sexual betrayal’: what happens if your partner doesn’t like your writing?
In Nicole Holofcener’s incisive new comedy You Hurt My Feelings, a horrifying scenario leads to uncomfortable questions
Lauren Mechling
27, May, 2023 @7:31 AM
La Chimera review – Alice Rohrwacher’s uproarious adventure teems with life
Set in 1980s Tuscany, Rohrwacher’s captivating film follows a lovelorn Englishman plundering Italy’s historical artefacts with a bizarre gang
Peter Bradshaw
26, May, 2023 @3:40 PM
The Machine review – standup comedian makes for limp movie star
Bert Kreischer turns a famous routine into a full-length movie with some surprising visual style but a lack of laughter
Jesse Hassenger
26, May, 2023 @1:57 PM
A Brighter Tomorrow review – Nanni Moretti’s new film is bafflingly awful
In competition at Cannes, the Italian director’s comedy-drama about a failing film-maker is full of non-comedy and anti-drama – a complete waste of time
Peter Bradshaw
24, May, 2023 @9:36 PM
Asteroid City review – Wes Anderson’s 1950s sci-fi is an exhilarating triumph of pure style
This tale of earth-shattering events in a space-obsessed desert town leans nicely into its own artificiality, and every delicious, microscopic detail is a delight
Peter Bradshaw
23, May, 2023 @5:23 PM
Club Zero review – not much to chew on in this baffling non-satire
Jessica Hausner’s baffling film, which avoids spelling out its obvious subject, focuses on a group of schoolgirls encouraged to live without food
Peter Bradshaw
22, May, 2023 @7:20 PM
Fallen Leaves review – deadpan Aki Kaurismäki comedy with springtime in its heart
Finnish film-maker’s sweet-natured odd-couple romance fills you with a feelgood glow and laughs in the face of Putin’s threat to the country
Peter Bradshaw
22, May, 2023 @4:46 PM
White Men Can’t Jump review – generic remake of the hit 90s comedy
In the Wesley Snipes-Woody Harrelson roles of the basketball-hustling duo, Sinqua Walls and Jack Harlow are fine, but the original’s edginess has been lost
Wendy Ide
21, May, 2023 @11:00 AM
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret review – warm, emotionally agile Judy Blume adaptation
With terrific performances from Abby Ryder Fortson and Rachel McAdams, Kelly Fremon Craig’s intuitive drama has cross-generational appeal
Wendy Ide
21, May, 2023 @10:30 AM
Melissa McCarthy: ‘I spend a lot of my work shredding people’
Actor Melissa McCarthy on winding up Trump, using ‘humour as healthcare’ and why she’s had enough of Hollywood’s ‘screamers and egos’
Eva Wiseman
21, May, 2023 @9:00 AM
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