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Andy Samberg and his team created a clever comedy that is certainly not the smartest film of the year, but it will provide plenty of laughs this summer.

Justin Simien makes the leap from shorts to features with one of the smartest films of the year.

Jordan Peele delivered one of the smartest films of the year in Get Out.

Now, what if I was to tell you they were all in one of the funniest and smartest films of the year?

Not exact matches

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For this isn't only one of the smartest, most sardonic performances of the year, it's also a film she helped shepherd along as producer.

A smart, adventurous film shot in real time, every Tuesday for a year, that takes us on an unusual but still recognizable personal journey of a close - knit parent and child.

Smart and snappy, this comedy is one of the scariest films of the year, using humour to outline the 2008 economic collapse from the inside.

Larry Fessenden's Wendigo, the concluding film of a thematically connected trilogy including Habit and No Telling, is a horror film for smart people and one of the best holdovers from last year.

It's the funniest horror film since «Evil Dead 2», the smartest since «New Nightmare» and surely one of the most breathlessly entertaining, original movies of the year.

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I also very much appreciated a year of smart, well - crafted and clever genre films — Attack the Block (Joe Cornish), Limitless (Neil Burger), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Rupert Wyatt), Source Code (Duncan Jones), Stake Land (Jim Mickle)-- and one marvelous mess of a personal project: Sucker Punch (Zack Snyder).

A Quiet Place doesn't have the pin - you - to - your - seat originality of «Get Out,» or the psychological depth and pure scare impact of «Lights Out» or the wall - to - wall intensity of «Don't Breathe,» but it is one of the smarter and more involving horror films of the last few years.

Featuring the best work from Carrey and McGregor in years (and a reminder of Carrey's phenomenal and chameleonic talents when given the right material), a smart and witty script adapted by the directors from McVicker's novel, and a cracking pace that neither hurries nor languishes, it combines the highlights of the heist and escape genres with dashes of dark humour and irreverence to create a film best described as a wicked delight.

It has been a banner year for smart and fun comic book movie adaptations, and the reason those three films worked as well as they did is they had a sly sense of humor and didn't take themselves so deadly seriously as Justice League does.

It may not be the smartest or funniest films of the year so far, but it is definitely one of the cutest.

In the first three quarters of 2014 I saw many of the year's best films at UK film festivals, all of which punched well above their weight by offering smart selections and presentations.

«One of the smartest and most terrifying films in years, the film reinvents the genre by putting a fresh twist on home - invasion horror.

If one were to ignore the global box office and consider undisclosed marketing costs, two of the biggest hits of the year — Get Out and It — signal a growing hunger for smart, stylish horror films made on a modest budget.

Peele and the cast have crafted something that defies the traditional genre and transcends it creating a film that will undoubtedly be looked upon as one of the smartest, funniest and most terrifying films of the year.

I won't spoil the big reveal, but even though I didn't predict it, it wasn't enough to save the movie or show any type of innovation as «the smartest film in years.»

«I am immensely proud of All the Light in the Sky, which is the result of 3 years of collaboration and development between Jane Adams and I. Jane is one of the smartest, most talented actors working today and Factory 25 will guarantee that her great work in this film is appreciated by an equally smart and sophisticated audience.»

That, of course, is when the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association weigh in with their selections of the year's best, showing up the likes of the nominee - naming Washington group as the pretenders they are, while classing up the season with some unapologetically idiosyncratic film smarts.

As lush and atmospheric a film as the American cinema has created in years, Crimson Peak stars Mia Wasikowska (whose wide eyes and open face evokes the gothic heroine incarnate) as a smart, passionate American heiress, the daughter of a self - made man (Jim Beaver as the model of paternal affection and American responsibility) and a writer with a romantic streak and an unsullied innocence, and Tom Hiddleston as the dashing suitor from overseas, a handsome aristocrat with a haunted soul whose mystery captures the American's heart.

My pick for the year's best movie is this coming - of - age film starring the great Saoirse Ronan as Christine — or «Lady Bird,» as she's re-christened herself — and it's as funny, smart, and filled with yearning as its heroine.

Whether you're old enough to remember the Frost / Nixon interviews from 1977 or smart enough (and that would be just about everyone) to recognize the parallels between authority - abusing presidents some 40 years apart, every frame of this film is relevant today.

And here are the five most disappointing films of the year: Fantastic Four (choppy and compromised superhero action), Sisters (corny comedy that's simply not smart enough), Southpaw (bogs down in boxing drama cliches), Pan (childish and manic kids» adventure), Black Mass (oddly unoriginal mob thriller).

What follows is another slapstick dose of hard - R ridiculosity with a soft - nougat center, but it also passes the Bechdel test maybe better than any other film this year, and its older generation of stars are too smart not to go to town on their stock roles.

Although it's the third film in as many years about astronauts in distress, «The Martian» is a smart, captivating and humorous adaptation of Andy Weir's bestselling novel that covers very different narrative and emotional territory than «Gravity» and «Interstellar.»

Sideways is much smarter than that, and is one of the best films of the year.

This year, that movie was Deadpool, the Ryan Reynolds - starring film about the X-Men-adjacent, smart - aleck, foul - mouthed superhero whose film was a defiant middle finger to the era of the superhero movie.

THE WAY WAY BACK — Also shot in Massachusetts — Marshfield — the film is a sweet, smart, summer coming - of - age tale about 14 year - old Duncan (Liam James) who begins his summer vacation in the way way back of his mother's (Toni Collette) boyfriend's (Steve Carell) station wagon.

Another film articulating parental fears through sci - fi conventions; this time the smartest blockbuster of late last year.

It's a deep, rich, smart film that's visually awesome and full of great sci - fi concepts, and one that was well worth the 35 - year wait.»

Peele, of course, is a member of the comedy team Key and Peele, stars of television as well as last year's hilarious feature film Keanu, which Peele co-wrote; Get Out is his directorial debut, and it's a surprising move, but also a smart one.

One of the smartest and most terrifying films in years, YOU»RE NEXT reinvents the genre by putting a fresh twist on home - invasion horror.

Assigned tokens are not added back to the audience pile, a smart way of representing a dwindling market as those who have already paid to see a film won't see a second one that year, but there's no way to actually target a specific type of person.

Among the highlights of Mark Leckey: Containers and Their Drivers will be Leckey's breakthrough film Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999), which uses sampled footage to trace dance subcultures in British nightclubs from the 1970s to 1990s; a selection of the artist's Sound System sculptures (2001 — 2012), functioning stacks of audio speakers that recall those used in street parties in London; his pedagogical lecture performances; GreenScreenRefrigeratorAction (2010), a video and installation that considers «smart» objects and our increasingly technological environment; and a new iteration of the installation UniAddDumThs (2014), which Leckey created as a «copy» of a touring exhibition, The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, that he had curated the year before.

Among the highlights of Containers and Their Drivers are Leckey's breakthrough film Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999), which uses sampled VHS footage to trace dance subcultures in British nightclubs from the 1970s to 1990s; a selection of the artist's Sound System sculptures (2001 — 2012), functioning stacks of audio speakers that recall those used in street parties in London; his pedagogical lecture performances; GreenScreenRefrigerator (2010 - 16), an installation that considers «smart» objects and our increasingly technological environment; and the fullest iteration to date of the installation UniAddDumThs (2014), which Leckey created as a «copy» of a touring exhibition, The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, that he had curated the year before.

It was a smart move that will hopefully cover at least a year of whatever expensive film school (pick Tisch, pick Tisch!)