Category: Comedy
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Anaconda (2025): Low Stakes, Big Snake, Good Remake
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Anaconda (2025) Tom Gormican Being the perfectionist I am, I’ve kept a close eye on my Letterboxd statistics for 2025, and I currently have 248 films in my diary. With Marty Supreme on the docket for tomorrow, I needed to get something else in to make it number 250, so Anaconda at 9:45pm it was. I wanted to see this movie anyway, so even though the circumstances weren’t ideal, I…
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Ella McCay: An Old-Fashioned Revival Dead on Arrival
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Ella McCay (2025) James L. Brooks Anytime Morgan goes out of town for the weekend, one of my first thoughts is, “how many movies can I go see?”. Unfortunately, this weekend doesn’t hold a lot of movies that Morgan wouldn’t also want to see, so Ella McCay won tonight in a fierce battle with Five Nights at Freddy’s 2. As much as I didn’t like the first Five Nights at…
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Jay Kelly: Can I Watch Again? I’d Like Another One
Jay Kelly (2025) Noah Baumbach Boy, have I missed Serious Sandler! Jay Kelly has been on my list since before I saw the first trailer thanks to Adam Sandler starring and Noah Baumbach directing, but that first trailer had me believing that this could be special. Then the reviews started rolling in, and I got nervous. I’m happy to report, though, that I personally had my worries proven wrong and was spellbound…
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Rental Family: Fake Families, Real Feels
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Rental Family (2025) Hikari What a finish to Thanksgiving break! I have never watched so many consecutive new releases as I did over the last week, but it’s been so fun. Rental Family was a film that caught my attention from its first trailer—I have a thing for films that highlight people’s goodness and humanity—and the product absolutely delivered. I have yet to see Brendan Fraser’s Oscar-winning turn in The…
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A Very Jonas Christmas Movie: An Inauspicious Start to the Season
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (2025) Jessica Yu When I first saw the announcement for this movie, I told myself I wouldn’t watch it, but here we are. Not only did I watch A Very Jonas Christmas Movie—Morgan, Abby, and I made it our first Christmas movie of the season. Unsurprisingly, this movie was underwhelming given its Disney Channel-level budget and writing. Even though I love the Jonas Brothers, their acting skills…
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Eternity: The Good Place Plays This Movie
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Eternity (2025) David Freyne My Thanksgiving Break has become surprisingly full with travel and weddings and dinners, so I’m having to puzzle together all of these movies I want to see as well. Eternity was one that I was plenty interested but Morgan wasn’t, so today—when Morgan’s out shopping in Fredericksburg—was the perfect day to go see it. Predictably, it crushed. What interested me most about Eternity when I first heard…
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Now You See Me: Now You Don’t: When We Needed Them Most, They Vanished
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (2025) Ruben Fleischer In a year where I’ve poured hours into a ton of franchises with varying returns, I’m not sure why I saw the Now You See Me franchise through. I didn’t love either of the first two movies, even though the premises had a lot of potential, but I figured that I should go see the third film since…
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Roofman: The Man Who Stole My Heart, Among Other Things
Roofman (2025) Derek Cianfrance Heading into Roofman tonight, I had been led to believe by its marketing that this was going to be a straight studio comedy, and that couldn’t have been much further from the truth. While there were certainly plenty of laughs to go around—and I mean plenty—Roofman really surprised in its emotional storytelling and family dynamics, which had me not only cheesing for most of the movie, but on the…
