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: 2.5★
There's a specific, sun-drenched haze to Bruce Robinson's adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary, and unfortunately it mostly just obscures a deeply average film. You sit there watching the warm Puerto Rican light bounce off rum bottles and white beaches, and
Rating: 3.0★
I still maintain that the 1979 The Muppet Movie is a near-masterpiece of joy, and I'd happily extend that warmth to The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island as solid, fun detours in the same spirit. So when James Bobin's 2011 reboot landed, I
Rating: 3.5★
There's something almost rebellious about how unashamed A Boy Named Charlie Brown is of its own age. Press play and within seconds you're confronted with scratchy lines, flat colours, and character movements that creak along with a kind of charming stiffness. This is nearly sixty years
Rating: 3.0★
There's a very specific kind of stupid that takes real commitment to pull off, and Zoolander is absolutely committed to it. Ben Stiller plays Derek Zoolander, a male model so catastrophically dim he makes a career out of a single facial expression, and the film around him is
Rating: 2.5★
I'll be honest: learning that Blondes in the Jungle is considered one of the most popular films ever to come out of Honduras left me completely baffled. I genuinely had to read that twice. Because if this is what earns regional acclaim, I can only imagine what the
Rating: 2.5★
When a film sits in Letterboxd's top 250 animations of all time, you go in expecting something. A hidden gem, maybe. A stroke of forgotten genius that somehow slipped past you in childhood. So I finally ticked off Kevin Lima's A Goofy Movie, fully prepared to
Rating: 3.5★
Jackie Chan is genuinely one of the most underrated actors working in cinema, and I'll keep saying it until more people actually believe me. We get so caught up in the sheer, unadulterated spectacle of his physical comedy that we forget he's actually a brilliant, expressive
Rating: 1.5★
There is a moment in the opening minutes of Attack the Block where a gang of London teenagers mug a young woman at knifepoint, goading and jeering as she runs away in terror. It is the very first thing we see them do. And from that point on, I spent
Rating: 2.0★
If you've ever wondered what happens when you take the saccharine, paint-by-numbers formula of a daytime television romance and transplant it to the Middle East, Elie El Semaan's Honeymoonish has your answer. And spoiler: the answer is not as interesting as you'd
Rating: 3.0★
Sometimes the backstory sells a film harder than the film can sell itself. She's Gotta Have It arrives wrapped in one of indie cinema's great origin stories: Spike Lee, fresh out of film school, scrapes together $175,000, shoots something raw and alive and entirely his
Rating: 1.5★
I wanted to love this film. I really did. When I found out that Voodoo Man holds a place as one of the most popular homegrown productions ever to come out of St Vincent and the Grenadines, I was immediately intrigued. The Caribbean is a region so rich in folklore,
Rating: 2.5★
There's a version of watching The Heart of the World where you sit back, jaw slightly open, genuinely dazzled by what Guy Maddin has pulled off in six frantic minutes. And then there's the version where you resurface afterwards, blinking, and wonder what on earth you
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