The Best Funny Movies to Watch on Criterionchannel
If you’re in need of cherring up with some side-splitting hilarity, we can help. Here’s a mixed bag of the funniest movies and shows to stream right now, from dark comedies to witty satire and beyond.
A mother makes it up to her daughter in this delightful, colorful comedy of errors.
An excellent introduction to the screen legend, as smooth as Old Stone Face himself.
A surprisingly hopeful, but no less compassionate, fantastic follow-up to Bicycle Thieves.
Alternatively, a hilarious, satiric guide to dealing with pesky organized crime.
An absurd, ridiculous parody of classic Chinese dramas that comes with a sweet twist.
Two broke introverts fall in love in this unconventionally deadpan romantic comedy.
An absolute delight of a gem starring a young Winona Ryder as well as an amazing cast. Arguably Jim Jarmusch’s best film, it tells the story of 5 different places at night from the perspective of cab drivers and their passengers: Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome, and Helsinki. It’s really hard to pick a […]
A meticulous and whimsical account of the making of the influential comic opera The Mikado.
Frances (Greta Gerwig) lives in New York – but not the glamorous NYC of Woody Allen movies. Taking place primarily in the gritty and rapidly gentrifying North Brooklyn, the black and white film paints a picture of an extended adolescence. Focusing on the goofy and carefree Frances, who loses her boyfriend, her best friend and […]
This is a great movie to watch on say a Sunday. The story of three homeless people who find a newborn baby while foraging through trash on Christmas eve and decide to care for the baby and track down its parents. Middle-aged Gin, aging Hana and teenage runaway Miyuki form a makeshift family haunted by […]
