Beatty’s Oscar-nominated script is razor sharp and hysterical.
The legendary actor plays a California Senator on a re-election campaign who basically goes off the traditional rails, expressing himself in ways that politicians aren’t usually prone to do. Warren Beatty wrote, directed, and starred in this amazing black comedy from 1998 that feels almost timelier today than when it was released.
Cohen brilliantly plays with how much harder it was to make a Borat film now than everyone recognizes the character, while also digging deep into the issues of 2020 like response to the pandemic, the increasingly vocal racism of the country, and the grossness of Rudy Giuliani. Sacha Baron Cohen returned to his most iconic character in 2020 with this sequel to his smash hit Borat, and it instantly became one of the most talked-about films of the year. You kind of have to be an asshole not to like it. It’s really as crowd-pleasing as comedies get. Gordon loosely adapt their own story, with Nanjiani starring alongside Zoe Kazan. It’s not common for a breakthrough comedy to be so acclaimed and popular that it actually becomes an Oscar nominee for Best Screenplay, but The Big Sick is not a typical comedy (and Holly Hunter was robbed of a nomination too, by the way). In fact, Big Daddy - the story of a slacker who ends up having to take care of an actual child - is Sandler’s biggest non-animated hit at the box office, a reminder when his comedies landed in theaters instead of just on Netflix (and when they were much, much funnier too). The 1999 Adam Sandler comedy came in the wake of The Wedding Singer and The Waterboy and really helped solidify the Sandman as one of the biggest stars in the world. The template for so many movies to come, The Apartment is a daring dissection of toxicity in the story of an insurance clerk (Jack Lemmon) who lets his coworkers use his apartment to support their infidelity. It’s hard to believe that Billy Wilder’s masterpiece is over six decades old given that it’s a film that feels as timeless as ever.
It’s a template movie for hundreds of relationship comedies to come. You know how the Academy ignores comedy when they hand out Oscars? Not this time: Annie Hall won awards for Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Actress, and even Best Picture. Coogan plays Tony Wilson, the head of Factory Records, and the dramedy charts the emergence of groups like Joy Division, New Order, and Happy Mondays. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Michael Winterbottom directs his muse Steve Coogan (the two also worked together on The Trip movies, Tristram Shandy, and others) in this biopic of the vibrant Manchester music scene in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.