The Beatles ‘Magical Mystery Tour’: Best Band, Worst Movie
The Beatles’ disaster of a pop musical, quirky, farce, road trip fantasy film that became Magical Mystery Tour begins with triumph.
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‘Monty Python’s Life of Brian’ Is Fundamentally Silly
The jokes in Monty Python’s the Life of Brian bristle with ideas about the absurdity of dogma and obedience to power, but the Pythons didn’t care about making audiences angry over religious hypocrisy.
‘The Lowdown’ Finds Hilarity in the Lowest Places
At turns a twisty whodunit, historical drama, tender family comedy, and farcical urban safari, The Lowdown overwhelms, but never wears you down.
Naughty Naughty Joe Orton
Screenwriter Joe Orton’s specialty was throwing in queer and polymorphous sexuality during a period when English laws were loosening but homosexuals were still being arrested.
Queen Anne Costume Drama ‘The Favourite’ Dazzles with Humor, Tragedy, Weirdness
Director Yorgos Lanthimos provides plenty of his trademark absurdity, but The Favourite is his most accessible, painfully human film to date.