Starting as Comedy but Ending as a Paranoid Thriller
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The first feature film by Bilge Ebiri, a New York Magazine film critic, is an unusual hybrid, a surreal "cubicle comedy" that subtly morphs into a paranoid thriller.
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There are no jokes, there are no laughs, even the toilet humour stinks and there's barely even a plot. The movie doesn't just rehash every overused, college comedy clichÃ© it takes them and demotes the nonsense to new levels of absurdity.
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Throughout âTime,â Kim Ki-duk flips between soapy melodrama and dry, self-aware comedy. The effect is thrilling and disorienting, like walking on a trampoline.
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There is a moment in the Russian mob  movie &quot;Eastern Promises&quot; when the level of violence rises so  high that the audience lets out a collective gasp, followed by  a ripple of nervous laughter.
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The film is a family entertainer, and steers clear of sex and violence. But somehow, it also guarantees that many of the main characters in the film act incredibly stupid.
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NEW YORK - With its clever premise and  quartet of appealing comedic star turns, "Wild Hogs" is a step  above the typical comedies rolling off the assembly lines of  the major studios. Unfortunately, though it gets off to a very  promising beginning, the film soon degenerates into typical  slapstick silliness that, while it should undeniably prove  crowd-pleasing, squanders its considerable comedic potential.
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Writer and director Eric Nicholasâs latest film, âAlone With Her,â is a voyeuristic thriller that is fiendishly assured yet ultimately less than the sum of its parts.
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In a continuing effort  to shed the broad comedy side of his persona, Tom Arnold will  play a low-rent private investigator in the indie comedic  thriller "Remarkable Power."
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The approach of having a speaking cast and a signing cast on the stage simultaneously may not be best for Nick Grossoâs absurdist British comedy.
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The thriller, starring Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal, stumbles as it attempts to make political points.
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Michel Gondry's beguiling new film is so profoundly idiosyncratic, and so confident in its oddity, that any attempt to describe it is bound to be misleading.
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&quot;Meet the Fockers&quot; doesn&#39;t miss a single obvious gag but it doesn&#39;t reach for many surprise ones either. Considering its cast is about as blue chip as they get, that&#39;s too bad.
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'License to Wed' has a creepy subtext for a family comedy.
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Blessy's latest offering starring Dileep and Meera Jasmine is a departure from his usual style of stories that focus on the nuclear family. This film he claimed to be a combination of a love story and a thriller leaves you numb by the time it ends.
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The documentary âFired!" contains slivers of shtick that play more as diverting filler than prime comedy material.
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A tale of the diplomat, his spy paramour, and his wife -- also a spy -- keeps getting weirder
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The Sundance Film Festivalâs opening weekend drew to a close looking more and more like a disappointment, if not an outright dud.