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In a low period for comedy films, these were the best of the last decade

The Independent·Jake Coyle·27 days ago
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The last decade has not been good for big-screen comedies. Hollywood studios nearly stopped making them. Horror became the in vogue genre. Laughs were out. Good comedies have kept being made, of course — it's just taken a little more effort to find them. This month marks the 10th anniversary of “The Nice Guys,” Shane Black's 2016 crime caper with Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe . No, it's not exactly the 50th anniversary of “Jaws.” But for a movie era where comedies went out of style, it's a moment worth marking. In the past decade, comedies have largely become the stuff of cult: little seen at release but rediscovered on streaming or elsewhere. “The Nice Guys” flopped at the box office, but its afterlife is long. So here are our picks for the best of the last 10 years, post-"Nice Guys.” We're leaving out the darker satires (“Parasite”), the acerbic dramas (“The Holdovers”) and the sequels that exist in their own glorious category entirely (“Paddington 2"). 10.…

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