3 quickie reviews before vacation
Palm Royale, Renegade Nell & Música
Tag: Comedy
Wicked Little Letters
Olivia Colman & Jessie Buckley spar over nasty notes
Problemista
Julio Torres uniquely quirky autobiographical comedy
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
The latest sequel is even worse
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
Wacky, absurd fun about an English highwayman
The American Society of Magical Negros
A racial satire that lacks bite or humor
The Gentlemen
Guy Ritchie’s first streaming series
Ricky Stanicky
A funny film from half of the Farrelly Bros
Drugstore June
Esther Povitsky creates a funny Gen-Z character
Drive-Away Dolls
Queer punk fun from Ethan Coen & his wife
Sharp Stick
Lena Dunham wrote, directed & acts
One Day
Revisiting one nite friendship every year
Lisa Frankenstein
A dark, dumb romcom version of the monster myth
The Monk and the Gun
A cultural charmer from Bhutan
Plus One
A romcom starring Maya Erskine & Jack Quaid
In the Know
Weird adult animation comedy from Mike Judge
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
The married spies flick is updated & dragged down
The Book of Clarence
A Biblical story with a Black angle
Mean Girls
From the musical adapted from the 2004 flick
The Curse
Cringe comedy at its most tedious
Self Reliance
Jake Johnson wrote/directed/stars as a man dodging death on reality TV
American Fiction
A satire on Black literature & white culture
The Brothers Sun
Michelle Yeoh heads a gangster family
Anyone But You
A romcom that’s all about Glen Powell