#RECENT COMEDIES TO WATCH MOVIE#

#RECENT COMEDIES TO WATCH MOVIE#

Katie Heaney, senior writer MoonstruckĪny movie with Cher is going to be good in my book, so let’s just get that part out of the way. It’s so funny and so sweet and not enough people have seen it. It’s great for so many reasons: the central romance is late middle-aged and accordingly complicated, and Sarandon’s pitch-perfect mom voice-mails kill me every time. My favorite feel-good rom-com is 2015’s The Meddler, starring Susan Sarandon and Rose Byrne. Brock Colyar, editorial assistant The Meddler

And in case the aging Nicholson isn’t your thing, the movie features Keanu Reeves as a steamy doctor. The scene during which Keaton cries for days on end is Meyers at her best, portraying complex emotions for an age group that doesn’t always get the spotlight. This one is classic Nancy Meyers: beautiful kitchens with gargantuan islands, Diane Keaton in fantastic knitwear, and an affair between a playwright mother and her daughter’s much older, womanizing boyfriend (Jack Nicholson). Kerensa Cadenas, senior editor Something’s Gotta Give It’s a delightful watch and might make you consider attempting Judd’s perfect pixie cut on yourself. Judd plays a talk-show producer who gets dumped by her co-worker and creates a theory about how men always want the “new cow.” This being a rom-com, things of course spiral out of control, and she finds love right under her nose. Who hasn’t wanted to know why someone broke up with them? It’s a question that many never get a simple answer to, and this Ashley Judd rom-com explores exactly that. Adrienne Green, senior writer Someone Like You A lot more romance than comedy, and VERY ’90s, but a good throwback that earns its two hours. All of that holds up, but right now I love watching it because it’s nice to see all of the little mundane moments of life that feel out of reach right now: house parties, the satisfaction of curving a guy who shot his shot a little too hard, getting clowned by your friends at game night. It was lauded at the time for showcasing a different portrait of black life, one that wasn’t surrounded by violence or focused on strife. It’s a simple film, set in Chicago’s jazz and spoken-word scene, about two artists - a young poet, played by Larenz Tate, and a photographer, played by Nia Long - who fall in love and struggle to stay there. Kelly Conaboy, writer-at-large Love Jones You deserve it! The movie stars Charlize Theron as the United States secretary of State and Seth Rogen as a left-leaning Brooklyn journalist who becomes her speechwriter, and I know that might not sound convincing, but I promise that you will like it.

Why are you waiting? Are you saving it for a special occasion? If so, I suggest forgoing that plan and just watching it now. It’s possible you still haven’t seen Long Shot, the best romantic comedy of 2019. Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz, senior writer Long Shot There’s also a really good paintball makeout scene. It was filmed in my hometown, which would usually be a turnoff, but other than that it’s a perfect movie: Ledger sings “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” Allison Janney is a principal who writes erotica, and a teenage Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Ledger’s scrawny sidekick. Based loosely on The Taming of the Shrew, it sees a beautiful Heath Ledger opposite a super-grumpy Julia Stiles (the movie opens with her reading The Bell Jar). But my desert-island rom-com has to be 10 Things I Hate About You. There were so many excellent rom-coms released this year: Alice Wu’s The Half of It comes to mind first, as does this weird little British film, Love Wedding Repeat. Izzy Grinspan, deputy style editor 10 Things I Hate About You It’s very sweet and has a much more satisfying ending than How I Met Your Mother. You see him courting three women in flashbacks, but you don’t get to find out which one he married until the end. The premise is that Ryan Reynolds is telling his daughter how he fell in love with her mother. Rachel Bashein, managing editor Definitely, Maybe The 1995 remake with Julia Ormond and Harrison Ford is very good too. There’s identity confusion, physical comedy, a tennis-court dance, and the perfect deployment of “La Vie en Rose.” It just makes me happy. Billy Wilder directs Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, and Humphrey Bogart at the top of their games as they swap longing gazes and witticisms. Not the most groundbreaking recommendation, I know, but it’s stood the test of time for a reason.

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