Director Taika Waititi manages to maneuver through slapstick, sentimentality, comedy, and searing drama with aplomb.

Suburban soccer moms engage in a passive-aggressive competition, with their husbands and sons as unknowing victims.

The year’s Palme d’Or winner is full of dark humor, surreal twists, and genuinely jaw-dropping sequences.

The satire includes a host of first-rate comic actors, but no one really gets a handle on the material.

Finding the humor of the making of a soap opera adored by both Palestinians and Israelis.

The amusing adventures of an eco-terrorist in Iceland.

An unsettling and cerebral genre mishmash of documentary, found footage, fantasy, and family drama.

A dark, bloody, and raunchy comedy/thriller depicts how a quiet American town erupts in chaos after a data hack.

A clever pastiche of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Lethal Weapon,, and Basic Instinct, with a dash of neo-noir thrown in.