Sentences with phrase «underrated comedy»

He rounded out the 90's with the title role in George of the Jungle, a serious dramatic role in the superb film Gods and Monsters about the director James Whale and a flirtation he has with the Fraser character, and another supremely underrated comedy, Blast from the Past, about a man who emerges from a bomb shelter after 35 years and falls in love with Alicia Silverstone.

If 21 Jump Street revealed his knack for comic timing, this cements him as one of the most underrated comedy performers around; his faux - stupid act doesn't get old, but also manages to be oddly sympathetic.

Probably will be the most underrated comedy of 2000, and definitely one worth seeking out for those who like «comedies of truth» without all the gross - out vulgarities like the rest of the so - called funny movies out there.

He's downright adorable opposite Julia Louis - Dreyfus in perhaps the most underrated comedy of last year.

But considering Hathaway's underrated comedy chops, she could be a good choice for the role anyway.

Braff, «J.D.» from NBC's underrated comedy «Scrubs,» stars in the semi-autobiographical story as Andrew Largeman, a struggling actor in Los Angeles who has come back home after nine years for his mother's funeral.

This criminally underrated comedy from the early 1990s is also one of the funniest heist films of all time.

A little known and very underrated comedy crime caper.

Tough stares and words await, very much of a piece with screenwriter Diablo Cody's earlier credits, especially her underrated comedy «Young Adult».

Into The Night, on the other hand, is a underrated comedy film which remains largely funny twenty - five years on.

This a very good underrated comedy that is worth seeing.

Mike Smith: Before we begin I have to tell you that I think «Ford Fairlaine» is one of the most underrated comedies ever made.

«9 to 5» remains one of the most underrated comedies of all time, and laid the groundwork for many ensemble comedies in the future.

Not exact matches

Ultimately, good intentions aside, the only point that You Don't Mess With the Zohan really proves is Newton's Law of Gravity; cowriter Judd Apatow has been THE dominant voice in American film comedy for the last three years (and I'm even counting the underrated Drillbit Taylor), but this movie proves that even HE had to come down some time!

A rather underrated indie comedy, Barefoot is wonderfully entertaining and fun.

The film is quite underrated and if you love these types of comedies, then you'll enjoy this film.

Returning to directing for the first time since 2002's underrated CQ 56, Sofia's older brother has enlisted an intriguing cast — including Charlie Sheen (in his first acting gig since Two and a Half Men), Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and Aubrey Plaza — for a 1970s - set comedy about a successful graphic designer who's life falls apart when his girlfriend leaves him.

American Dreamz is not a perfect comedy, but for what it is, it's a mindless comedy that is underrated.

This edition of Now Stream This brings you a highly underrated and very recent Todd Haynes movie, a new Netflix horror flick, a gloriously over-the-top action movie, a cynical noir loaded with snappy dialogue, the first Hannibal Lecter film, a romantic horror movie, a Steven Spielberg adventure, a cringe - inducing social media comedy, and some good old fashioned body horror.

After that, the young actor would gravitate more to comedy, reuniting with two of his Platoon stars for some of his better movies (Tom Berenger on the two Major League films and Keith David on the underrated, hilarious Men at Work).

One of the most underrated films of the past decade has got to be «Adventureland,» the 2009 coming - of - age comedy by Greg Mottola («Superbad»).

The fact that it is a female - driven independent comedy that stars several talented and underrated actresses leads me to believe that this may be one of the most popular and best - reviewed films to come out of SXSW this year.

Aside from the 2001 semi-flop Zoolander, Stiller also directed Reality Bites and the vastly underrated Jim Carrey comedy The Cable Guy.

From Shane Black, director of Iron Man 3 and the highly underrated dark comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Nice Guys has a lot going for it in the casting department as well with Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling leading this crime thriller into funny but intriguing directions.

He directed the funniest film in the Marvel franchise, Iron Man 3, and the criminally underrated crime comedy The Nice Guys, so a big - budget R - rated sci - fi horror like The Predator doesn't scream «next career step», but here we are.

His swan song, Parade, sorely underrated by the small number of critics who've actually seen it, was a clean break from Hulot, and as such, feels more free than anything else Tati ever made — it's a difficult film for people who may be expecting another lighthearted, whimsical comedy, instead of an experimental film that uses a circus performance as its foundation, but in its own way, it's the ultimate Tati, an undiluted expression of what he loved to do and to see, and what hats to put on.

THE INTERNSHIP director Shawn Levy has given us the likes of NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM and the underrated DATE NIGHT, so when heading to this Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson buddy comedy, you have a notion of what to expect.

We don't want to give the impression that the film is purely a comedy, it's far from it, dealing with the great Catholic Church scandal of the Magdalene Sisters who were forced into near - slave labor and separated from their children (Peter Mullan dealt with similar stories in his underrated directorial effort «The Magdalene Sisters «-RRB-.

«Casablanca,» which expertly melds several key»40s Hollywood genres (drama, comedy, noir, spy thriller, love story) was adapted from a truly lousy play «Everybody Goes to Rick's,» reworked by the Epstein brothers (Julius and Philip) and Howard Koch, and directed by that sometimes underrated master, Michael Curtiz.

When: April 27th Why: There are a number of great comedy writing teams in Hollywood, but perhaps one of the most underrated is Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller, who already have a pair of terrific films to their names in «Forgetting Sarah Marshall» and «The Muppets.»

My top 5 picks: Preston Sturges» delightful comedy «The Lady Eve» (1941, April 4 - 6), Fritz Lang's noir «Clash By Night» (1952, April 18 - 20), the most underrated Christmas movie ever, «Remember the Night» (1940) and the Douglas Sirk 1956 melodrama «There's Always Tomorrow» (both with Fred MacMurray, on a double feature April 30 - May 1) and Samuel Fuller's 1957 feminist Western «Forty Guns» (May 9 - 11).

Other writing and directing gigs included the underrated Multiplicity starring Michael Keaton, and the surprising crime comedy double dose of Analyze This and Analyze That with Billy Crystal and Robert De Niro.

In 2013 Michael Bay tried to make a real movie: the underrated «Pain & Gain», a Miami crime comedy with actual performances and a satirical bite.

Danny Boyle is one of the more underrated mainstream directors working today; he's been able to spin films as different as pitch - black comedy (Trainspotting) to apocalyptic zombie thriller (28 Days Later) with genuinely good results (let us not speak of The Beach).

We talk to Alexander Payne (Election, Sideways), director of the underrated science fiction comedy - drama Downsizing, starring Matt Damon, in which people choose to be shrunk down to live in miniaturized cities as a way to help with global warming and overpopulation.

Between his recent foray into the realm of action in (the underrated) Nerve and his upcoming performance as Greg Sestero in his brother's upcoming Tommy Wiseau - focused film, The Disaster Artist, he may simply have a hard time turning off his knack for high drama and going back to comedy.

Writer / director John Michael McDonagh (making his feature debut as director) is brother to Martin McDonagh, who teamed with Gleeson and Colin Farrell on the underrated dark comedy In Bruges, and The Guard definitely looks like it has some of the same genes, maybe with even a touch of a less over-the-top Hot Fuzz in there.

As he proved in 1999's underrated war drama / western / satire / heist / action film / comedy / political thriller / social conscience movie Three Kings, Russell is a master at defying genre.

On the movie front, Heckerling wrote and directed the 2000 Jason Biggs flop Loser and reunited with Rudd and Dash for the underrated, «Clueless» - inspired, oddly direct - to - video 2007 Michelle Pfeiffer comedy I Could Never Be Your Woman.

If you go into Your Highness thinking of it as lesson in modern - day cinema, you'll leave with these three conclusions: 1) Danny McBride is still not much of a screenwriter 2) David Gordon Green still hasn't found is stride directing «action comedies» and 3) Justin Theroux is an incredibly underrated comedic actor.

Jonathan M. Goldstein and John Francis Daley (who also co-wrote the script for the underrated 2013 Steve Carell magician comedy «The Incredible Burt Wonderstone») clearly used «National Lampoon's Vacation» as a road map, but mix - in some fresh elements for this wacky reboot.

Best Scores and Soundtracks of the Year (some of them talked about in depth here) Michael Andrews» «Jeff Who Lives At Home» (he's criminally underrated), Nick Urata's score for «Ruby Sparks» (beautiful and heartrending, maybe my fave of the year), «Beasts of the Southern Wild» (anthemic, celebratory, overwhelmingly burst - into - tear inducing), Hans Zimmer's «The Dark Knight Rises» (typically thrilling and towering), Howard Shore and Metric — «Cosmopolis» (sinisterly futuristic; we overlooked by accident), the soundtrack to «The Comedy» (poignantly wistful soul), the soundtrack to «Take This Waltz,» «Rust & Bone,» «Nobody Walks» and «Keep The Lights On» (an excellent soundtrack of forlorn Arthur Russell songs that we regrettably failed to mention at length in our music piece).

One of the most underrated new shows of last season in my humble opinion was FX's animated spy comedy Archer.

Mr. Devine manages to create a bit of comedy relief by the use of his trademark high - pitched raspy voice, as well as his underrated physical acting movements.

Best Drama: The Shape of Water Best Comedy: I, Tonya Best Horror or Science Fiction Film: Get Out Best Action Film: Star Wars: The Last Jedi Best Actor: Daniel Kaluuya for Get Out Best Actress: Sally Hawkins for The Shape of Water Best Director: Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water Best Experimental Film: Faces Places Most Underrated Film: Brigsby Bear Worst Film of the Year: The Mummy About the Internet Film Critic Society The Internet Film Critic Society is an international association of online film critics and journalists.

When actors make comedy look effortless they are always underrated, and Grant has been underrated for years.

Also valuable and worth noting is «La Vie En Rose» which of course featured a spectacular turn by Marion Cotillard that was unexpectedly celebrated by Oscar, Zoe Cassavetes «severely underrated, wry and sweet, «Broken English,» which includes a very winning and charming turn by Parker Posey; Susanne Bier «s Danish drama, «After the Wedding» and perhaps surprisingly equally engaging, her underrated survival and recovery drama, «Things We Lost In The Fire,» which is made great by Benicio Del Toro (and even Halle Berry evinces that she's capable of good work in spots), Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul «s always mysterious and bifurcated, «Syndromes And A Century» (which has elements of both sci - fi and comedy).

I think they're all underrated, talented performers, and ever since seeing Barinholtz work his magic as a charmingly weird supporting character in The Mindy Project, I've been pulling for him to lock down some more starring roles in big studio comedies.

He's closely identified with the two «Hangover» movies and romantic comedies («Valentine's Day,» Razzie winner «All About Steve,» «Failure to Launch»), but has also appeared in the underrated «Limitless» and the - yes - also underrated «The A-Team.»

This action comedy, reuniting him with the writers of the underrated «Cop Out,» is better than a lot of those misfires.