How to Make a Killing review – how to make a pointless remake
Kind Hearts and Coronets gets a slick, Glen Powell-led remix that’s stylishly made but entirely redundant
Night King review – Hong Kong hostess bar comedy is love letter to old-style Kowloon nightlife
Dayo Wong and pop star Sammi Cheng star in strangely coy comedy which has glitzy charms and jokes but lacks raw chemistry
The Blood Countess review – Isabelle Huppert reigns supreme in a surreal vampire fantasia
Vienna turns into a playground of camp, cruelty and aristocratic disdain in a blackly comic take on the Báthory legend – with Huppert gloriously suited to the title role
Bud Cort obituary
American actor who starred in the 1971 dark comedy film Harold and Maude that later became a cult classic
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die review – AI is the bad guy in lively yet overstuffed caper
There’s fun to be had in Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski’s satisfyingly tech-fearing adventure – but some restraint wouldn’t have gone amiss
Goat review – noisy, lightning-speed basketball animation does it for the kids
A diminutive young buck aspires to compete with rhinos and horses in ‘roarball’, but this by-numbers tale is not the greatest of any time
REM x Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr review – classic comedy gets new alt-rock soundtrack
Keaton’s wild invention doesn’t gain much by adding indie guitars, but if they can bring a new audience to this silent classic, who’s listening?
‘Endlessly quotable’: why Wayne’s World is my feelgood movie
The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to their most rewatched comfort films is a trip back to 1992 for the unique rock comedy
Catherine O’Hara managed to make difficult characters utterly delightful
The death of the 71-year-old actor and comedian leaves behind a long line of unforgettably original comic creations, from Beetlejuice to Schitt’s Creek
Chasing Summer review – incoherent small-town comedy is a baffling car crash
Comedian Iliza Schlesinger’s nonsensical misfire is a swirl of cliches, unfunny comedy, stock characters and bizarre direction from Josephine Decker
Is This Thing On? review – funny is as funny does in Bradley Cooper’s John Bishop-inspired tale
Cooper directs Will Arnett in this likable, semi-believable story about a man heading for a divorce who discovers a cathartic outlet in comedy
Nouvelle Vague review – Richard Linklater bends the knee to Breathless and Jean-Luc Godard
Linklater recreates the making of the landmark French New Wave classic with an awestruck tastefulness that smooths over any disruptiveness
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass review – silly, scattershot Hollywood comedy
Zoey Deutch is a small-town girl hunting down Jon Hamm for sex in David Wain’s disposable yet often funny lark
Send Help review – Sam Raimi returns with gore-laced plane-crash survival face-off
Starring Rachel McAdams, this gets off to a promising start, but the plot twists are derivative and the tacked-on violence descends into exasperating silliness
‘Pushes the nostalgia buttons’: why Enchanted is my feelgood movie
The latest in our series of writers picking their go-to comfort films is a tribute to Amy Adams and what might be her greatest performance