Comedy at its best does more than raise a laugh: Billy Wilder proved as much with The Apartment, a film that wrings genuine heartache from office farce without losing its wit for a second. The genre rewards close attention, and Macca's reviews treat it with exactly that. Browse the collection below.
Rating: 3.5★
There's a moment early in Booksmart where you realise this isn't just going to be another end-of-school comedy coasting on nostalgia and gross-out gags. It's sharper than that, and warmer than that, and it knows exactly what it's doing.
Rating: 2.0★
Let me be honest with you: I went into Re-Animator expecting to have a great time. Stuart Gordon's 1985 splatter-comedy has one of those reputations that precedes it like a foghorn, all glowing reagents and severed heads and knowing winks at the camera. The kind of
Genre Adventure
★★½ — The Eagle (1925)
Genre Action
★★★½ — The General (1926)
Genre Comedy
★★★ — The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
Genre Animation
★★★½ — Americana (2023)
Genre Comedy
★★½ — What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
Genre Comedy
★½ — Cemetery Man (1994)
Genre Comedy
★★★ — Monkey Business (1931)
Genre Comedy
★★½ — Daisies (1966)
Genre Comedy
★★★½ — Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
Genre Family
★★★½ — Toy Story 4 (2019)
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