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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photo by Buena Vista Pictures
The romantic comedy, starring John Cusack, is known both for its memorable soundtrack and for being a seamless book-to-film adaptation of the 1995 Nick Hornby novel.
“Causes us to leave the theater quite unreasonably happy.” —Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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