Anora (2024)
A Cinderella story that clocks its own fairy tale and keeps going anyway.
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The genre that never needs an excuse. From Disney-adjacent charmers to gutter-punk cult favorites, if it actually made us laugh out loud, it earned a spot on this list — rated in ears and carrots, not laugh-track density.
Comedy ages the least predictably of any genre — what killed in a screening room decades ago sometimes plays flat today, and vice versa. We rewatch before we rate, not just remember.
Showing all 20 launched so far, of 33 planned
A Cinderella story that clocks its own fairy tale and keeps going anyway.
A Coke bottle falls from a plane into a Kalahari tribe’s life and chaos politely follows. A genuine one-of-one.
A band's origin story that turns language politics into the year's funniest drug comedy.
Walt Disney courts P.L. Travers for the film rights to Mary Poppins, and she is having none of it. Warmer and sadder than the trailer suggested.
A road-trip comedy that keeps finding the joke inside the grief and vice versa.
An action-movie parody that turns a 93-year-old's stubbornness into the year's most unlikely thrill ride.
A viral-fame parable that gets funnier the more uncomfortable it becomes.
A headmaster obsessed with punctuality misses one train and spirals into total chaos. John Cleese doing exactly what he does best.
A love letter to stunt work that never forgets to also just be a good time.
Four teenagers scheme their way to a KISS concert against every possible obstacle. Dumb in exactly the right way.
A thirty-second joke stretched into ninety minutes of shameless, committed stupidity — and it works.
A hangout comedy that turns into something far more dangerous, and never once cheats to get there.
A cult curio that never found its audience the first time around — this is your second chance.
When a paparazzi photo mistakenly links a movie star to an ordinary parking valet after she's photographed with her secret married lover, the two strike a fake-relationship arrangement to cover up the affair, with unexpected complications for both of their lives.
Two friends pose as police for a costume party and never quite stop. Dumber than it needed to be, funnier than expected.
An awkward, unemployed young woman obsessed with ABBA songs and fantasies of a perfect wedding leaves her stifling hometown for Sydney, where a reinvented life and an unlikely friendship force her to confront who she really wants to be.
Two French cinema heavyweights, handcuffed together and clearly having a blast.
Two great performances turn a strange true-crime footnote into a briskly entertaining character study.
Six teams, one suitcase of cash, and absolutely no interest in slowing down to explain itself.
A sharp premise about megachurch showmanship, carried further by its cast than by its script.
Ears (0-5) are our overall verdict on the film; the carrot meter (0-100%) is how confident we are you won't regret hitting play tonight specifically. Neither is an aggregated score — every rating here is a single editorial call.
By quality and word-of-mouth staying power, not release-week hype. Some of the comedy reviews here are decades old, others are from the last few years — the only filter is whether we think it's genuinely worth your time.
Anora (2024), at 4.6/5 ears — our current Editor's Pick for Comedy.
20 published so far, with 31 planned in total as we keep working through the genre.
Ears measure how good we think the film is, full stop. Worth Your Time factors in practical things too — runtime, pacing, whether it holds up on a rewatch — so a shorter, tighter film can sometimes score higher on Worth Your Time than a heavier, more demanding one that still earns more ears.
If a rewatch genuinely changes our mind, yes. But we don't chase shifting consensus — a rating here reflects a real, current viewing, not a placeholder we quietly update to match wherever critical opinion has drifted.