The comedy’s appealing accessibility doesn’t overshadow the social concerns that propel it, or allow it to rise beyond expectations.

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.