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By Steve Erickson (207) for Nashville Scene (147) on 09 Feb 2018

If you live in certain trendy neighborhoods in certain cities, you may recognize something genuine in Alverson's characters as depicted in…

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By Louis Proyect (533) for Counterpunch.org (73) on 19 Jan 2018

A searing study of an aging hipster who encapsulates the misanthropy popular culture's notion of what it means to be funny…

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By Monica Castillo (380) for Dig Boston (33) on 12 Apr 2016

For something titled The Comedy, this movie isn't funny. Or charming, likable, enjoyable, or any other adjectives you would find splashed on a poster…

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By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Jun 2013

While this could have been the perfect portrait of a certain kind of idiot, the baroque cruelties and tonal monotony go too far…

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By Marc Mohan (821) for Oregonian (1,550) on 24 Jan 2013

This is a lacerating portrait of the sort of narcissistic self-loathing that has kept educated, economically comfortable young people from…

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By Michael Nordine (446) for Willamette Week (516) on 24 Jan 2013

Champions what it appears to mock and indicts what it appears to glorify…

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By Wesley Morris (1,967) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 06 Dec 2012

At some point, he finds himself drifting around a swimming pool, and it's tempting to think of Dustin Hoffman sinking to the bottom of the…

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By Gerald Peary (163) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 06 Dec 2012

[A] relentlessly aimless, abrasive stab at black humor…

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By Leah Churner (24) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 30 Nov 2012

The film retreads much of the anti-comedic territory already bulldozed in Heidecker and Wareheim's own Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, retaining…

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By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 29 Nov 2012

The joke, I guess, is that there's nothing funny about The Comedy…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 26 Nov 2012

If it weren't for Kate Lyn Sheil, who has a couple of scenes as a blase Brooklyn waitress inexplicably ending up in the protagonist's bed,…

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By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 22 Nov 2012

The Comedy, one of the most self-indulgent, pretentious and unfunny movies of the year, is a mean-spirited piece of mumblecore that tries to…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue.com (1,236) on 22 Nov 2012

Pushing the boundaries of taste isn't necessarily a bad thing, but the film is so busy daring its audience to hurl insults that it forgets…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 16 Nov 2012

Picture Raging Bull with a sleazy prep from the Brooklyn hipsteropolis of Williamsburg, and you'll get the idea of The Comedy, a character…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 15 Nov 2012

The movie may critique its antihero, but it also offers just one more venue in which he's allowed to wallow - while we pay his way…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 15 Nov 2012

If you can discern any critical distance or interesting perspective here, or even a good reason to spend 90 minutes in such company, I'm afraid…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 15 Nov 2012

It's a long, painful sit that claws at interpretational ambition, but only nails the rare moment of enlightenment, wasting 90 minutes of screentime…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 14 Nov 2012

The Comedy pretends to be a satire of entitlement, but it's made in a style so indulgent that the whole film feels entitled in the extreme…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 13 Nov 2012

Unlike a truly daring movie like Lars von Trier's The Idiots - about a gang of clever jerks who pretend to be mentally retarded - The Comedy…

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By Ted Scheinman (5) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 09 Nov 2012

The Comedy may not aspire to be the portrait of a generation, but it certainly offers a scary dissection of a faux-careless Brooklynite sensibility…

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