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★
Some films impress you. A few make you sit up and wonder how on earth they were made at all. The Tale of the Fox is firmly the latter. This is a stop-motion feature very nearly ninety years old, the painstaking puppet work of Władysław Starewicz and his daughter
Rating: 2.5★
Let me be straight with you: I kept having to remind myself, the whole way through Rags, to judge it for what it actually is rather than what I might want it to be. And what it is, plainly, is a straight-to-television teen musical. A modern, gender-flipped
Rating: 3.5★
Whisky is a strange one to recommend. On paper, everything about it should be a chore, and yet I found it quietly gripping in a way I did not see coming. That almost never happens to me with films like this, and I am still not entirely sure how it
Rating: 2.5★
There is a version of Entergalactic that works brilliantly, and you can almost see it from where the actual film is sitting. It is there in the colour palette, in the way a single frame freezes into something you would happily hang on a wall, in the deep, unhurried groove
Rating: 3.0★
There is something genuinely endearing about a film that wears its influences so openly. Armour of God is, quite plainly, Jackie Chan's answer to Indiana Jones: the hero is a globe-trotting treasure hunter nicknamed the Asian Hawk, and the whole thing cheerfully lifts the "ancient relics
Rating: 4.5★
Some of the best stories are the ones you can scarcely believe are true, and Pride is built on a beauty. In the summer of 1984, a small group of gay and lesbian activists in London looked at the striking miners being ground down by Margaret Thatcher's government,
Rating: 3.0★
The main reason to seek out Real Women Have Curves right now is to watch a future star at the very beginning. This was America Ferrera's first feature film, more than two decades before her showstopping monologue in Barbie reminded the world just how good she is, and
Rating: 3.5★
I have watched and written about a lot of Wes Anderson by now, enough to call him one of my favourite directors, though I would stop short of calling him one of the best, and I think that distinction matters. The two are not the same thing. A favourite is
Rating: 3.5★
They Cloned Tyrone announces itself as one of those films that refuses to sit still in a single genre, and for a good while that is exactly what makes it such fun. Juel Taylor's debut opens as an atmospheric, darkly comic crime picture set in a rundown neighbourhood,
Rating: 4.0★
Fairy tales have always had a cruel streak. Not the Disney kind, with the swelling strings and the guaranteed happy ending, but the older kind, the kind where girls slice off their own toes to fit a glass slipper and pigeons peck out the eyes of the wicked. The Ugly
Rating: 3.5★
Not so long ago I sat through a zombie comedy that was so busy cracking jokes it forgot zombies were supposed to be scary. That film left me cold. Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is the direct antidote to that problem, and a neat little lesson in getting the
Rating: 4.0★
Few premises could feel more of the moment than this one. A man gives a quarter of a century to the same company, and then, one day, new owners decide that AI and automation can do his job for less. He is out. Just like that. No sentiment, no severance
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