Over-the-top plot and straight-to-video villain notwithstanding, The Lost City unearths comedy gold from the pairing of Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum.
8.5 out of 12 Tamales
Tag: Comedy
“Abbott Elementary: Season One”: One-Sentence Review
The authenticity, with only mild hyperbole, of the American classroom has never been encapsulated quite as well as in ABC’s ferociously funny and big-hearted Abbott Elementary.
11 out of 12 Tamales
“What We Do in the Shadows: Season Two”: One-Sentence Review
Remarkably, What We Do in the Shadows builds on its previous season’s chemistry, sinking its fangs further into everything that works, while creating moments of comedic genius along the way—Jackie Daytona anyone?
11 out of 12 Tamales
“What We Do in the Shadows”: One-Sentence Review
The movie before the hit FX show, Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s What We Do in the Shadows, lays the groundwork—above and six feet below—to what has transitioned into one of TV’s funniest shows.
9 out of 12 Tamales
“Vacation Friends”: One-Sentence Review
Like the pals you make on a summer getaway, Hulu’s Vacation Friends’ fun and laughs are mostly forgotten as soon as it ends.
6 out of 12 Tamales
“Coming 2 America”: One-Sentence Review
A brisk power walk down memory lane, Coming 2 America revisits, with mostly diminishing returns, the majority of the first Coming’s jokes and characters, leaving no stone, zirconia or diamond, unturned.
6 out of 12 Tamales
“Superintelligence”: One-Sentence Review
Even with Melissa McCarthy’s high comedy IQ, Superintelligence is an unintelligible, unfunny, meandering mess.
4 out of 12 Tamales
“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”: One-Sentence Review
Pervasive perverseness reigns hilariously supreme during Borat’s ignominious return to the US and A, cementing Sacha Baron Cohen’s place on the Mt. Rushmore of comedic trolls.
10.5 out of 12 Tamales
“An American Pickle”: One-Sentence Review
A quainter and milder Encino Man, An American Pickle is the double-dose-of-Seth Rogen comedy we didn’t know we wanted—even if the story eventually gets too big for its early 20th century britches.
8.5 out of 12 Tamales
“Long Shot”: One-Sentence Review
Charlize Theron’s and Seth Rogen’s chemistry polls well in Long Shot, a film that should be voted into the not-so-long list of good political rom-coms.
9.5 out of 12 Tamales
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