Comedy
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The Becomers
Immigrant stories put a fresh frame around lives that native-born citizens don’t think too deeply about. Science fiction movies can do…
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Incoming
Movies won’t stop pursuing the next great one crazy night adolescent comedy anytime soon. You know, that “Superbad” formula obliquely…
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Between the Temples
Nathan Silver’s “Between the Temples” opens with a loud, keening blast from the shofar. If you haven’t heard it before,…
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The Good Half
“Are you lost?,” an old lady at the mall asks sad-sack Renn Wheeland (Nick Jonas) during one of his omnipresent bouts…
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Jaclpot!
“Jackpot!” is a trashy and repetitive action comedy about greed and bloodlust set in a world full of people who are proud to…
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Running on Empty
Would you like to know the day you will die? It’s a tricky thought exercise. What if you find out…
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Peak Season
Co-directors Steven Kanter and Henry Loevner reunite (after their COVID-set breakup comedy “The End of Us”) for their sophomore feature,…
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Kneecap
The Belfast schoolchildren stand in their classroom, singing “Óró Sé do bheatha abhaile,” a traditional Irish song, in the Irish…
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The Instigators
I didn’t think Doug Liman could deliver a worse film than “Road House,” the plastic, overwrought remake of the 1980s…
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Coup!
This movie opens with views of a manual typewriter, and indignant words being spelled out letter by letter. The time…
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