The 28 Best Comedies This Century, Ranked From Worst to Best
by
Julia Hays, for Metacritic
– June 5, 2017
From Academy Award winners to outrageous, campy comedies, this century has been filled with a variety of laugh-inducing flicks.
These films star titans of the genre, including Seth Rogen, Jack Black, Sacha Baron Cohen and Chris Rock. And while some are of the laugh-out-loud variety, other comedies are satirical, of the mumblecore genre, or just plain dark.
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Nicolas Cage stars in this meta-film as twin brothers Charlie and Donald Kaufman, with Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper also starring. A self-loathing screenwriter (Cage) battles serious writer's block while trying to adapt Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief.
“What a bewilderingly brilliant and entertaining movie this is.” —Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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