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Sierra Burgess Is a Loser
Sierra Burgess Is a Loser: 2018 Netflix teen rom-com, a Cyrano de Bergerac retelling directed by Ian Samuels, written by Lindsey Beer, starring Shannon Purser, Kristine Froseth, and Noah Centineo; Metascore 60.
Snatched (2017 film)
Snatched is a 2017 American comedy film directed by Jonathan Levine, starring Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn as a mother and daughter kidnapped during a vacation to South America.
Song to Song
Song to Song is Terrence Malick's 2017 romantic drama set in the Austin, Texas music scene, starring Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara, Michael Fassbender, and Natalie Portman; it premiered at SXSW, grossed about $1.8 million worldwide, and holds a 43% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Sorry to Bother You
Sorry to Bother You is a 2018 American satirical comedy film directed by Boots Riley, starring LaKeith Stanfield as an Oakland telemarketer who finds success with a "white voice."
Status Update
Status Update is a 2018 American teen comedy directed by Scott Speer, written by Jason Filardi, starring Ross Lynch as Kyle Moore, whose magical app U-niverse makes his social media posts come true; 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Survival Family (サバイバルファミリー)
Survival Family (サバイバルファミリー) is Shinobu Yaguchi's 2017 Japanese comedy about the Suzuki family fleeing a Tokyo where all electricity has stopped, cycling to Kagoshima. Released February 11, 2017 by Toho; 117 minutes; earned 800 million yen in Japan.
Table 19
Table 19 is a 2017 American comedy-drama film directed by Jeffrey Blitz, starring Anna Kendrick as a former maid of honor seated with misfits at a wedding.
Tag (2018 film)
Tag is a 2018 American action comedy film directed by Jeff Tomsic, starring Ed Helms, Jon Hamm, and Jeremy Renner as lifelong friends playing an annual game of tag.
Teefa in Trouble
Teefa in Trouble is a 2018 Urdu-language Pakistani action comedy directed by Ahsan Rahim, starring Ali Zafar as a Lahore fixer sent to Warsaw to kidnap Maya Ali's character for an arranged marriage; it set Pakistan's opening-day record and earned about PKR 50 crore.
The Last Movie Star
The Last Movie Star (aka Dog Years) is a 2017 Adam Rifkin comedy-drama starring Burt Reynolds as aging star Vic Edwards, with Ariel Winter and Chevy Chase, released by A24 in March 2018.
The Layover (film)
The Layover (2017) is an American comedy directed by William H. Macy, starring Alexandra Daddario, Kate Upton, and Matt Barr as rivals stranded in St. Louis; it holds a 0% Tomatometer and Metascore 15.
The Little Hours
The Little Hours is a 2017 Jeff Baena comedy, loosely adapted from Boccaccio's Decameron, starring Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Kate Micucci, and John C. Reilly as medieval nuns and a fugitive servant posing as a deaf-mute; Sundance premiere, 78% Tomatometer, $1.6M US gross.
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is Terry Gilliam's 2018 comedy-drama adapting Cervantes, starring Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce; conceived in 1989, its 2000 shoot collapsed in six days, was documented in Lost in La Mancha, and closed Cannes 2018.
The Meyerowitz Stories
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is Noah Baumbach's 2017 Netflix comedy-drama, premiered In Competition at Cannes, starring Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, and Elizabeth Marvel as siblings facing their sculptor father.
The More You Ignore Me (film)
The More You Ignore Me is a 2018 British comedy-drama directed by Keith English, adapted by Jo Brand from her 2009 novel, starring Sheridan Smith, Ella Hunt, and Mark Addy; a 1980s family story about a mother's mental illness and Smiths fandom, released 6 July 2018.
The Outcasts (2017 film)
The Outcasts is a 2017 American teen comedy starring Victoria Justice and Eden Sher as high school outcasts who unite the unpopular cliques against the school's queen bee.
The Package (2018 film)
The Package (2018) is a Netflix teen comedy directed by Jake Szymanski, written by Kevin Burrows and Matt Mider, once titled Eggplant Emoji, about friends racing to reattach a friend's severed penis after a camping accident.
The Professor (2018 film)
The Professor, also known as Richard Says Goodbye, is a 2018 comedy-drama film written and directed by Wayne Roberts, starring Johnny Depp as a dying professor.
The Upside
The Upside is a 2017 American comedy-drama directed by Neil Burger, starring Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston, that remakes the 2011 French hit Intouchables and opened in January 2019.
The VelociPastor
The VelociPastor is a 2018 American micro-budget ($35,000) comedy-horror film by Brendan Steere about a priest who turns into a dinosaur and fights ninjas; it grew from a viral 2011 fake trailer born of an autocorrect typo.
The Week Of
The Week Of is a 2018 American comedy film directed by Robert Smigel, starring Adam Sandler and Chris Rock as two fathers before their children's wedding.
Then Came You (2018 film)
Then Came You (2018), originally titled Departures, is an American comedy-drama directed by Peter Hutchings, written by Fergal Rock, starring Asa Butterfield, Maisie Williams, and Nina Dobrev; premiered at Woodstock, released February 1, 2019 by Shout! Studios.
This Is Not What I Expected
This Is Not What I Expected (喜欢·你) is a 2017 Chinese romantic comedy directed by Derek Hui, starring Takeshi Kaneshiro and Zhou Dongyu, about a chef and a hotel billionaire.
Tour de Pharmacy
Tour de Pharmacy: 2017 HBO sports mockumentary by Andy Samberg and Murray Miller, directed by Jake Szymanski, satirizing doping at a fictional 1982 Tour de France; premiered July 8, 2017, with Lance Armstrong cameo.
Tully (2018 film)
Tully is a 2018 American comedy-drama directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody, starring Charlize Theron as an exhausted mother who bonds with her night nanny, played by Mackenzie Davis.
When We First Met
When We First Met is a 2018 Netflix romantic comedy directed by Ari Sandel, starring Adam Devine and Alexandra Daddario, in which Noah uses a magical photo booth to relive the night he met Avery; 45% on Rotten Tomatoes, Metascore 36.