Comedy

Girl Picture (2022)

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Girl Picture (2022)

I learned early in my life, thanks to the late-great World Book encyclopedia, that there are some parts of the northern world in which the...
| August 18, 2022
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I Love My Dad (2022)

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I Love My Dad (2022)

James Morosini's I Love My Dad is a wonderful comedy of escalating embarrassment.  It takes a simple idea and balloons it up into broad comedy so...
| August 17, 2022
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Emergency (2022)

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Emergency (2022)

It would not surprise me if Carey Williams' Emergency somehow found itself among the year's Best Picture nominees next January.I know, I know.  That's a bold statement,...
| May 28, 2022
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The Bob’s Burgers Movie (2022)

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The Bob’s Burgers Movie (2022)

The most surprising thing about The Bob's Burgers Movie is that it doesn't feel like epic.  Previous attempts to raise a prime time animated property...
| May 25, 2022
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Senior Year (2022)

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Senior Year (2022)

Netflix's Senior Year is an annoying hi-concept comedy that takes a potentially interesting premise and waterlogs it with bad sitcom-style writing.  An overcaffeinated 12-year-old could...
| May 14, 2022
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Stanleyville (2022)

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Stanleyville (2022)

What are the limits of your human instinct for greed?  How far would you go for a nuclear-orange compact sport utility vehicle?  Would you be...
| April 22, 2022
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Marvelous and the Black Hole (2022)

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Marvelous and the Black Hole (2022)

Marvelous and the Black Hole is the most harmless movie that I've seen in a while.  I was in a good mood watching it, and maybe...
| April 22, 2022
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Chariot (2022)

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Chariot (2022)

There is a line in Chariot that I think pretty much sums up the entirety of the film: "Surely, it had to mean something."  When the...
| April 15, 2022
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