‘I watched it endlessly as a teen’: why Mrs Doubtfire is my feelgood movie
The latest in our series of writers singling out their go-to comfort watches is a look back at a complicated comedy showcase for Robin Williams
Palestine Comedy Club review – roving performance collective finds light in darkness
This portrait of a multi-ethnic comic troupe could do with more unpicking, but its reflections on the grind of war, life on the road and the reactive nature of comedy are insightful
Cold Storage review – mutant-mildew plague horror comedy stuffs fun into the fungi
Stranger Things’ Joe Keery is joined by a stellar cast battling an outbreak of virulent brain spores, but the film doesn’t offer much more than endless wisecracks and a splatterhouse grossfest
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