Year: 2024
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Comedy Movie
Ghostlight
“Ghostlight,” which focuses on a construction worker drawn into a production of “Romeo and Juliet,” is a drama about traumatized people healing themselves…
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Comedy Movie
Bad Behaviour
“Never give in to hope.” Lucy (Jennifer Connelly) writes these words on the white board while attending a “semi-silent retreat”.…
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Animated Movie
Inside Out 2
Wait. Pixar finally has a quality animated film hitting theaters? Granted, it’s a sequel. But after seeing “Turning Red” pushed…
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Comedy Movie
Longing
“Longing” is a remake of an award-winning Israeli film by the same writer/director, Savi Gabizon. It could just as well…
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Comedy Movie
I Used to Be Funny
On stage, comedians use their words to make their audience laugh, gasp, or think—sometimes simultaneously. But what happens when a…
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Comedy Movie
Accidental Texan
A bad first impression won’t necessarily ruin a movie. If anything, it’s more important that a film stick the landing,…
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Comedy Movie
Ezra
Last month, I was a juror in the Narrative Feature category at the Florida Film Festival; one of the films,…
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Animated Movie
Robot Dreams
Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams” is a lovely fable about partnership and imagination, a movie that uses the form of animated…
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Comedy Movie
Hit Man
People like to speak about a golden era of movies—the precise dimensions of which often shift based on the generation…
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Comedy Movie
The Garfield Movie
I cannot think of a single reason for another Garfield movie, and apparently, the people who made this couldn’t, either.…
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