Brooklyn has excellent performances — especially from Ronan (The Grand Budapest Hotel) and Walters — and has terrific comedy sequences at Walter's character's boarding house dinner table. (tri-cityherald.com)
The Lavender Hill Mob — One of the several terrific comedies Alec Guinness made at Ealing studios in the late 40s and early 50s, directed by Charles Crichton, who made a splash in the 80s with A Fish Called Wanda (# 10, 1988). (theendofcinema.net)
The Comedy genre has been lacking this year with lackluster films like Rough Night and Sandy Wexler; nonetheless, The Big Sick is a terrific comedy that hits all the right notes as a comedy, romance, drama, and social commentary film. (donttalkaboutmovies.net)