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Comedy films

January 2025

  • Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg.

    ‘Every day is 24 hours of panic to just get out the door’: Jesse Eisenberg on self-indulgence, candid aunts and his Oscar-tipped Holocaust comedy

  • Pearce Quigley as David H and Rory Kinnear as Dave Fishwick in Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger

    Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger review – Rory Kinnear files a solid return as the bloke from Burnley

  • Rowan Atkinson in Mr Bean’s Holiday.

    Ranked
    Rowan Atkinson at 70: his best films – ranked!

  • A very serious overcurrent … Kieran Culkin as Benji and Jesse Eisenberg as David in A Real Pain.

    A Real Pain review – Jesse Eisenberg’s sauntering Holocaust tour comedy is a masterpiece

  • Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties: The Bubbles and the Shitrockers Story review – goofs on tour

  • Get Away review – Nick Frost ramps up the ridiculousness in comedy horror

  • It’s Raining Men review – Laure Calamy adultery comedy puts the heat in cheat

  • My feelgood movie
    ‘Brings delight’: why Rush Hour is my feelgood movie

December 2024

  • Australian Films to Watch in 2025

    Summer essentials
    Spit, Magic Beach and a Crocodile Dundee redux: 10 Australian films to watch out for in 2025

  • Charles Shyer in 2004.

    Father of the Bride and Baby Boom director Charles Shyer dies aged 83

  • A rubber chicken with its mouth open, forming the O in LOL

    The Observer's January cultural diet
    A laugh a day to keep the winter blues away: the 31-day comedy diet for January

  • Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian in Love Lies Bleeding

    2024 in Culture
    And the 2024 Braddies go to … Peter Bradshaw’s film picks of the year

  • My feelgood movie
    ‘Perfect paternalistic nonsense’: why Father of the Bride is my feelgood movie

  • Best movies US 2024
    The 50 best movies of 2024 in the US

  • Best films UK 2024
    The 50 best films of 2024 in the UK

  • Summer essentials
    The 10 best Australian films of 2024: from creepy horror to sublime claymation

  • Sonic the Hedgehog 3 review – Jim Carrey supplies laughs and energy for hedgehog threequel

  • ‘To me, to uzi’: why Paul Chuckle as a gangster isn’t such a dramatic career change

  • Best movies US 2024
    Best movies of 2024 in the US: No 4 – Anora

  • Standing Up review – autism gets sappy treatment in didactic family road movie

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