Many comedians and filmmakers got a boost during the Judd Apatow surge of the late 2000s.
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Role Models (2008)
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Shrek 2 (2004)
The original Shrek is a movie that is easy to both underrate and overrate for reasons outside of the film itself.
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Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
For all the striking stylistic elements of Moonrise Kingdom, my favorite thing about it might be its simple, effective story.
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Game Night (2018)
Game Night is a few tweaks away from being a great movie.
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I Love You, Man (2009)
I Love You, Man is not a Judd Apatow film, but you’d be forgiven for thinking it was.
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Lady Bird (2017)
Upon Lady Bird’s release in 2017, the teen cinema intelligentsia immediately declared it one of the all-time great teen comedies.
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Say Anything… (1989)
Say Anything is a film that grows with you.
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Confess, Fletch (2022)
In the mid-80s, Chevy Chase starred in two Fletch movies based off of Gregory McDonald’s comedic detective novels.
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The Cat Returns (2002)
Given how much of Studio Ghibli’s reputation rides on low-plot, high-vibe pictures, and how much I adore some of those films, trust that I don’t utter the following sentence lightly
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Persuasion (2022)
By my understanding, there have been two golden eras of Austen films in my lifetime, to date.