Physical comedy is so rare in movies now that a team like Bruno Romy, Fiona Gordon, and Dominique Abel is something to be treasured—their Belgian features (L'Iceberg, Rumba) teem with deft slapstick and clever sight gags, skillfully directed and often gut-laugh funny.
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This 1982 first feature by Amy Heckerling (Clueless), based on Cameron Crowe's nonfiction book about teenagers at a southern California high school in the 70s, was never all it was cracked up to be.
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Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 account of taking drugs and behaving like an asshole in Las Vegas yields a singularly unpleasant 1998 feature from writer-director Terry Gilliam, though one with a lot of creativity and a scuzzy integrity of its own.
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This 1975 feature is the best of John Waters's movies prior to Hairspray and his ultimate concerto for the 300-pound transvestite Divine, whose character will do literally anything—including commit mass murder—to become famous.
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Young people battling cancer aren't exactly a staple of movie comedy, but this nervy project from director Jonathan Levine (The Wackness) mines a remarkable number of laughs from the situation.
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Young people battling cancer aren't exactly a staple of movie comedy, but this nervy project from director Jonathan Levine (The Wackness) mines a remarkable number of laughs from the situation.
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The protagonist of this 2010 Italian drama is a failed writer whose depression and fear of intimacy escalate after he's called back to his hometown to care for his dying mother.
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In this comedy drama, the brothers and sisters of a dysfunctional family prepares to spend Christmas with their estranged father, whom they haven't seen in 20 years.
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Israel entered this 2011 family drama in the Academy Awards, and one might twit the movie's safe, middlebrow, apolitical story if the domestic nominees weren't also generally safe, middlebrow, and apolitical.
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