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: 3.0★
There's a moment early in The Suicide Squad where a group of genuinely terrible people are dropped onto a beach and almost immediately torn to shreds, and it sets the tone perfectly. James Gunn is not messing about. This is loud, bloody, irreverent, and thoroughly committed to its
Rating: 3.0★
The hype can be a killer. I went into 3 Idiots having been told by what felt like half the internet that it was one of the funniest films ever made, a stone-cold classic, an absolute must-see. I'm a huge fan of Sholay, so I have
Rating: 4.0★
There's a structural trick at the heart of Lady Bird that I couldn't stop thinking about after the credits rolled, and once you clock it, the whole film snaps into a kind of elegant, almost geometric focus. Everything comes in pairs. Two names for the protagonist,
Rating: 3.0★
There's a specific kind of shame that comes with admitting your thirteen-year-old self got something badly wrong. I first watched Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham back in 2002, and my overwhelming memory of it was that it felt cheap, almost like a British
Rating: 2.0★
My seven-year-old lost interest before the climax. That, more than anything, tells you what you need to know about Jungle Beat: The Movie. If a child who will happily rewatch the same episode of a cartoon twelve times in a row starts drifting off during a kids'
Rating: 4.0★
I'll be straight with you: the first thing I saw when I looked up On-Gaku: Our Sound was the main character's face, and I genuinely could not tell what was going on with his mouth. This weird, jagged zigzag sitting under his nose that made
Rating: 3.0★
Kieran Culkin is magnetic in this film. Whatever scene he's in, whatever he's doing, you simply cannot look away from him. That's a good thing, because A Real Pain pretty much lives or dies by whether you buy into his performance, and he more
Rating: 3.0★
There's something quietly disarming about a film that knows exactly what it is. Bye Bye Blue Bird, directed by Katrin Ottarsdóttir, is a low-budget Faroese road movie about two women returning home after seven years away and finding that home no longer quite fits. It's
Rating: 2.5★
There's a moment in They Will Kill You that I keep coming back to. The screen goes almost completely black, and all you can see is a flaming axe carving through the darkness, each swing briefly illuminating a fight in bloody, flickering flashes. It's properly spectacular,
Rating: 3.0★
My fiancée absolutely loves this film. It sits near the very top of her all-time favourites list, and so I went into it with a certain amount of pressure to feel the same way. I didn't, quite, but I can absolutely see what she sees in it,
Rating: 0.5★
Three minutes. That's all it takes for Lost Boy in Juba to make its case, and honestly, three minutes is about two minutes and fifty seconds too long. The premise is this: a returnee from the diaspora, presumably used to tapping a card for everything, tries to pay
Rating: 3.5★
I can't believe I'm about to say this, but here we go: I genuinely like Barbie. I, a 37-year-old man, sat down, watched it, and came out the other side having had a proper good time. I even quite like Ken, which is a
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