Category: Comedy

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2010s / Comedy / Drama / Thriller

American Made (2017)

Bouncing back from his prior fiasco, The Mummy, Tom Cruise (Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation) gets to use his effervescent charm to good effect in American Made, a slick and entertaining production based...

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2010s / Comedy / Drama

Brigsby Bear (2017)

Kyle Mooney (Zoolander 2, Hello My Name is Doris) co-writes and stars in this comic tale of a man-child named James who grows up in an extremely sheltered existence in a remote bunker in Utah,...

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2010s / Comedy / Thriller

Logan Lucky (2017)

West Virginia family, the Logans, have claimed they and their kin have been cursed for nearly a century of bad luck. This story focuses on three of them, the recently laid-off and lame-legged Jimmy...

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2010s / Comedy / Drama

Magic Mike (2012)

Director Steven Soderbergh (Haywire, Ocean’s Thirteen) continues to expand his horizons by taking on the world of male strippers, something that is always tantalizing, and yet rarely has gotten big-screen treatment from Hollywood in the...

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2010s / Action / Comedy / Science Fiction / Superhero

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

Spider-Man: Homecoming represents the third time in this young century that Marvel’s flagship superhero has been attempted on the big screen. While it’s understandable that Sony wouldn’t just let a sure-shot property go to waste,...

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2010s / Action / Comedy / Thriller

Baby Driver (2017)

Set in Atlanta, Ansel Elgort (Allegiant, Insurgent) plays Baby, a baby-faced (naturally) but extremely talented driver who constantly plays music on several of his old iPods while he works in order to overcome his persistent...

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2000s / Comedy / Thriller

Ocean’s Thirteen (2007)

One wonders how much my enjoyment of this third installment of the Oceans series is influenced by the fact that the second, Ocean’s Twelve, had been a disappointment to most of those who loved Ocean’s Eleven.  Perhaps it...

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2010s / Comedy / War

War Machine (2017)

When was the last time Brad Pitt (By the Sea, Fury) gave a performance that didn’t resemble an alien trying to control a human host? That’s the question I posed on Twitter shortly after screening War...

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2010s / Comedy / Drama / Romance / War

Their Finest (2016)

Set in 1940, around the time of the London Blitz during World War II, Their Finest stars Gemma Arterton (The Girl with All the Gifts, Gemma Bovery) as Catrin Cole, a fledgling screenwriter from Wales who has...

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2010s / Action / Comedy / Thriller

Free Fire (2016)

The premise of Free Fire is high concept, so much so that some people will immediately like the film just for that concept alone, regardless of whether it actually makes for a compelling way to tell...