How many comedy movies were released in 2024?

I kind of, sort of, maybe have the answer.

From Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2024, I only saw two movies in theaters.

As a self-described cinephile, that’s an embarrassingly low number–especially for someone who lists “going to the movies” as one of their hobbies. To make matters worse, one of my two 2024 outings was a screening of my short film We Regret To Inform You at the Ocktober Film Fest (which, as you might have guessed, took place in October).

The only other time I hit the cineplex this past year was to see festival darling/moderate critical and commercial success story Saturday Night with a crowd. I plunked down $12 (my friend is an AMC A-List member and hooked it up), went to a matinee at an Upper West Side theater and winced for 90 minutes. The uncanny valley casting, smug references and half-baked attempts at recreating honest-to-goodness real comedy were alarmingly similar to a stage play I’d written about SNL’s failed 1980-81 season. Seeing them on AMC’s medium-sized screen confirmed my greatest fear: movies that take place backstage at a TV show don't make for truly compelling entertainment (30 Rock being the exception to the rule- that might be because it’s TV and not a movie, too). Sorry, Jason Reitman, I have to speak my truth and now feel free.

Other than that one disappointment, I’d say 2024 was a pretty damn good year for cinema regardless of what haters on Letterboxd may argue. Coming-of-age movies came into their own (I Like Movies, I Saw The TV Glow, Rap World and Janet Planet were all excellent additions to the subgenre), forgotten indies rocked (Scrambled, Lousy Carter, Good One and The Society of Magical Negroes deserved so much more love than they got) and heartfelt commentaries on motherhood had me laughing and crying (hats off to you, The Wild Robot and Nightbitch).

And, at the time of publication, I still haven’t even seen a lot of this year’s Best Picture nominees like The Brutalist, Anora, A Complete Unknown and so, so, so many more.

That’s not what this newsletter is about, though.

This is about a list. An annual Matt Levy list.

Every January, I set out on a mission. My goal is to document every single comedy film released over the course of the calendar year (although it can get quite confusing with festival versus theatrical and domestic versus international release dates) and prove that the genre known as “comedy” — which has been labeled as “dying” since the end of the Apatow heyday and maybe even before then — quietly continues to thrive.

To prove my point, I dug through reviews, box office reports, YouTube rabbit holes, best of lists and, after all my research, found 303 feature-length comedies that were released over the past 12 months. That’s 196 more than I found in 2022 and 105 more than in 2023.

There are some you’ve undoubtedly heard of (think Beetlejuice Beetlejuice), many that seemed to fall by the wayside (Joanna Arnow’s sublime The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed unfairly made next to no noise) and others from Romania, Italy, France, Sweden, Singapore and a handful of other countries but all existed and prove that this dying medium still has some juice left whether it be box office receipts wise or in terms of cinematic inventiveness.

SIDE NOTE: I included unintentional comedies — i.e. serious movies that made audiences laugh like Megalopolis and Trap — so “303 comedy movies released in 2025” isn’t exactly accurate. It’s more like 295 but you get the idea.

To share the fruits of this labor of love, I’ve linked each and every one of these 303 movies’ trailers and listed either a) their country of origin if the movie came from outside the U.S. or b) recognizable cast members under c) somewhat specific subgenres like “painstakingly realized, charming animation” and “Christmas ‘comedies.’”

I’ll admit my subgenre labeling is imperfect. Some movies ended up being tossed into categories by themselves like “road trip with family” or “comedy that’s way sexier than it has any right to be.” These obviously aren’t “real” subgenres but felt right. Also, I make all the rules here so there’s that.

Other subgenres I included are catchalls for films that were difficult to define. Therefore, a lot of movies fell under the “underseen slice of life gems about human beings” umbrella (this might be my favorite grouping of movies, FYI) even though they may fit better in another category. Honestly, truth be told, a couple of the flicks here might not even really qualify as comedies but I threw them in because the list would feel incomplete if I didn’t include them and as someone making a comprehensive list that includes the word “All” I felt an obligation to be a completist snob.

I promise this is all less complicated than it sounds. It’s really just a list.

OK, now, you’re probably wondering what’s the point of all this nonsense? To that, I say, fair question.

Basically, I see this massive list of all comedy movies released in a year (my third time doing this now) as a snapshot of a part of the year in film as well as a document of industry trends. There’s a lot to glean from what gets made and what a studio/indie comedy looks like in 2024.

Plus, I enjoy going down a rabbit hole and finding the end.

And I have to atone for my “only going to the movie theater two times in 2024” sin.

The most truthful answer of all though is that I’d like to think this mega list is a helpful resource for fellow obsessive cinephiles seeking out more off-the-beaten path comedies that might not show up on any year-end lists. For example, did anyone else here ever hear of Greedy People starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt? I didn’t and after watching the trailer I wanted to see this crime comedy caper. Looks great. That “hey, that movie looks good and I never heard of it” phenomenon happened to me dozens of times making this list and I was delighted to find so many movies that got little to no press (more on that in a second).

SIDEBAR: Streaming is a double-edged sword. It’s truly amazing that we can see almost any movie at any time. A true democratization of the medium. On the flip side, I hate that movies get dumped online without any pomp and circumstance like they’re YouTube videos now. A new film like, say Scrambled on Hulu for example, gets released on a platform, spends a few weeks on the homepage and then languishes away in the proverbial dollar bin of the streaming services only ever surfacing when you search “comedies” or type something into the search bar and come across the movie when looking for something with a similar title like Scrubs.

But I digress.

END SIDEBAR.

More than anything though, I’m tired of the played-out “there are no comedies being made anymore” argument that pops up occasionally in the news, podcasts and online articles. Nothing could be further from the truth. Sure, maybe we aren’t getting many original theatrical studio comedy releases other than The Fall Guy. Sure, a lot of comedies are sequels and reboots. BUT if you look a little closer, you’ll find thoughtful, goofy, giddy pics written or directed by auteurs like Charlie Kaufman, Ethan Coen, Guy Maddin, Richard Linklater and Sean Baker falling through the cracks (yes, they all had comedic movies released in 2024).

So…what are my takeaways after all this possibly pointless research? Well, what stuck out most to me was how poor Lionsgate’s marketing campaigns are. As mentioned above, a lot of these 303 movies made nary a cultural peep even though they had big-name cast members (looking at you, JGL movie). Many of those under-advertised movies were Lionsgate pictures. I hate to throw a production company under the bus (especially one that produced so many comedies!) but man did they drop the ball last year. So much talent, so little buzz. Here’s hoping they rebound in ‘25.

Also, of note, there were way more slice-of-life character studies in ‘24 than in ‘22 and ‘23 but fewer horror comedies. Are we over movies that heighten our fears and want to embrace the prickliness of everyday life instead? Or did the horror comedies from years past underperform and studios decided to cherry-pick even cheaper works hoping audiences would flock to them? Is this just random and I’m overthinking things?

Hard to tell but it happened.

Also, it pretty much goes without saying, but, at this point, there’s really very little money in making comedy films (unless you’re Inside Out 2, Deadpool or Beetlejuice). Many of the movies you’ll find listed below made next to nothing. I like that. I prefer passion projects over commerce machines. The fact that audiences didn’t discover a lot of these flicks is a shame but hopefully they will (and, heck, maybe you, the reader here, will even seek out one or two of these movies after skimming this insanely long list that took way, way, way too long to compile).

Alright! You made it past the prologue! Congrats!

Now, feel free to speed read or pore over (open some tabs! The links are legit!) this mega list. It’s for you. Enjoy and see ya at the movies this year (hopefully).

NOTE: Films that aren’t in English have the country of origin listed instead of actors. There are a few exceptions where the big names in the cast are well-known enough — looking at you, Jackie Chan — that I included them.

NOTE II: If I overlooked anything that you think should be on the list, let me know. There has to be a few I missed.

Semi-humorous prestige films

Anora (starring Mikey Madison, Mark Eidelstein, Yuriy Borisov)

A Real Pain (starring Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Jennifer Grey)

Conclave (starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, Isabella Rosselini)

The Substance (starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid)

A Different Man (starring Sebastian Stan, Adam Pearson, Michael Shannon)

Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World (Romania; technically released in the US in 2024)

La Chimera (Italy; starring Josh O’Connor, Isabella Rosselini)

Cash grab sequel/reboots

Inside Out 2 (featuring the voices of Amy Poehler, Lewis Black, Tony Hale)

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (starring Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara)

Mean Girls (starring Angourie Rice, Reneé Rapp, Tina Fey)

Mufasa (featuring the voices of Aaron Pierre, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Thandie Newton)

Bad Boys: Ride Or Die (starring Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Rhea Seehorn)

Despicable Me 4 (featuring the voices of Steve Carell, Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig)

Axel F (starring Eddie Murphy, Paul Reiser, Joseph Gordon-Levitt)

Ghostbusters: Afterlife (starring Finn Wolfhard, Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon)

Garfield: The Movie (starring Chris Pratt, Samuel L. Jackson, Cecily Strong)

Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (starring Ben Schwartz, Jim Carrey, Keanu Reeves)

Kung Fu Panda 4 (featuring the voices of Jack Black, Viola Davis, Awkwafina)

Road House (starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Conor McGregor, Jessica Williams)

My Spy: The Eternal City (starring Dave Bautista, Craig Robinson, Ken Jeong)

One-of-a-kind surreal visions

Sasquatch Sunset (starring Jesse Eisenberg, Riley Keough, Nathan Zellner)

Problemista (starring Julio Torres, Tilda Swinton, RZA)

Música (starring Rudy Mancuso, Camila Mendes, J.B. Smoove)

The American Society of Magical Negroes (starring Justice Smith, David Alan Grier, Drew Tarver)

KInds of Kindness (starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe)

The End (starring Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, George Mackay)

Rumours (starring Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, Charles Dance)

Blockbuster action comedies

Hit Man (starring Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Retta)

The Fall Guy (starring Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Hannah Waddingham)

Panda Plan (China; starring Jackie Chan)

The Union (starring Mark Wahlberg, Halle Berry, J.K. Simmons)

Boy Kills World (starring Bill Skarsgård, H. Jon Benjamin, Sharlto Copley)

Nice Girls (France)

Throwback big-budget studio comedies with bona fide movie stars that flopped

Argylle (starring Bryce Dallas Howard, John Cena, Sam Rockwell)

Wolfs (starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Amy Ryan)

The Instigators (starring Matt Damon, Casey Affleck, Hong Chau)

Fly Me To The Moon (starring Channing Tatum, Scarlett Johansson, Ray Romano)

Post-modern superhero films

Deadpool & Wolverine (starring Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Matthew McFayden)

The People’s Joker (starring Vera Drew, Bob Odenkirk, Tim Heidecker)

Venom 3: The Last Dance (starring Tom Hardy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple)

Joker: Folie a Deux (starring Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson)

Borderlands (starring Cate Blanchett, Jack Black, Kevin Hart)

Underseen slice-of-life gems about human beings

Dad and Step Dad (starring Colin Burgess, Anthony Oberbeck, Brian Fiddyment)

Free Time (starring Colin Burgess, Rajat Suresh, Holmes)

Between The Temples (starring Jason Schwartzman, Carol Kane, Robert Smigel)

Hard Truths (starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, Bryony MIller)

The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed (starring Joanna Arnow, Scott Cohen, Babak Tafti)

His Three Daughters (starring Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, Carrie Coon)

Good One (starring Lily Collias, James Le Gros, Danny McCarthy)

Ghostlight (starring Keith Kupferer, Katherine Mallen Kupferer, Hanna Dworkin)

Suze (starring Michaela Watkins, Charlie Gillespie, Sara Waisglass)

Bird (starring Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Nykiya Adams)

Lousy Carter (starring David Krumholtz, Martin Starr, Olivia Thirlby)

Stress Positions (starring John Early, Theda Hammel, Qaher Harhash)

Gasoline Rainbow (starring Micah Bunch, Tony Aburto, Nichole Dukes)

Sometimes I Think About Dying (starring Daisy Ridley, Dave Merheje, Meg Stalter)

All Happy Families (starring Josh Radnor, Rob Huebel, Becky Ann Baker)

A Traveler’s Needs (Korea; starring Isabelle Huppert)

On Becoming A Guinea Fowl (Zambia)

The Monk and The Gun (Bhutan)

Bad Behaviour (starring Jennifer Connelly, Ben Wishaw, Alice Englert)

Treasure (starring Lena Dunham, Stephen Fry, Tomasz Wlosok)

The Year Between (Steve Buscemi, Wyatt Oleff, J. Smith Cameron)

The Problem With People (starring Paul Reiser, Colm Meaney, Jane Levy)

60 Miles North (starring Edward Crawford, Jack Mulcahy, Marsha Dietlein)

Crossing (starring Deniz Dumanli, Lucas Kankava, Mzia Arabuli)

Thoughtful satire with a female lead

Blink Twice (starring Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum, Alia Shawkat)

Nightbitch (starring Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, Zoe Chao)

Woman of the Hour (starring Anna Kendrick, Tony Hale, Pete Holmes)

I Used To Be Funny (starring Rachel Sennott, Jason Jones, Caleb Hearon)

Skincare (starring Elizabeth Banks, Lewis Pullman, Nathan Fillion)

Quirky indies that wear their Wes Anderson influence on their sleeve

Universal Language (Canada)

We Were Dangerous (New Zealand)

The Falling Star (France)

Club Zero (starring Mia Wasikowska, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Elsa Zylberstein)

Darla In Space (starring Alex E. Harris, Constance Shulman, Thomas Jay Ryan)

Bookworm (starring Elijah Wood, Nell Fisher, Michael Smiley)

Timestalker (starring Alice Lowe, Jacob Anderson, Nick Frost)

Women finding their way in the world

Drugstore June (starring Esther Povitsky, Haley Joel Osment, Bobby Lee)

Downtown Owl (starring Lily Rabe, Vanessa Hudgens, Ed Harris)

Late Bloomers (starring Karen Gillan, Jermaine Fowler, Kevin Nealon)

The Young Wife (starring Kiersey Clemons, Judith Light, Leon Bridges)

Chosen Family (starring Heather Graham, Julia Stiles, Andrea Savage)

Cora Bora (starring Meg Stalter, Darrell Hammond, Chelsea Peretti)

Space Cadet (starring Emma Roberts, Tom Hopper, Poppy Liu)

Spread (starring Elizabeth Gillies, Harvey Keitel, Diedrich Bader)

Addition (starring Teresa Palmer, Joe Dempsie, Eamon Farren)

Sneaky, smart high-concept set in 2000 about dudes finding their way in the world

Y2K (starring Rachel Zegler, Kyle Mooney, Jaeden Martell)

Let’s Start A Cult (starring Stavros Halkias, Wes Haney, Daniel Simonsen)

Coming of age with jokes

I Like Movies (starring Isaiah Lehtinen, Percy Hynes White, Romina D'Ugo)

Rap World (starring Connor O’Malley, Eric Rahill, Jack Bensinger)

Janet Planet (starring Julianne Nicholson, Zoe Ziegler, Elias Koteas)

The 4:30 (starring Austin Zajur, Nicholas Cirillo, Ken Jeong)

Didi (starring Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Mahaela Park)

Fitting In (starring Maddie Ziegler, Emily Hampshire, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai)

Snack Shack (starring Gabriel LaBelle, Conor Sherry, David Costabile)

Uproar (starring Julian Dennison, Rhys Darby, Minnie Driver)

The Moon and Back (starring Isabel May, Missi Pyle, Nat Faxon)

Alemania (Argentina)

We Grown Now (starring Blake Cameron James, Gian Knight Ramirez, S. Epatha Merkerson)

Wah-Wah (starring Nicholas Hoult, Emily Watson, Gabriel Byrne)

Popular Theory (starring Chloe East, Cheryl Hines, Marc Evan Jackson)

Camp (starring The Sklar Brothers, Joey King, Nolan Gould)

Big Boys (starring David Johnson III, Isaac Krasner, Dora Madison)

Boot Camp (starring Rachel Boudwin, Drew Ray Tannner, Emmanuelle Chriqui)

The Mountain (starring Elizabeth Atkinson, Reuben Francis, Terence Daniel)

Painstakingly rendered, charming animation

The Wild Robot (featuring the voices of Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Matt Berry)

Wallace and Gromit: A Vengeance Most Fowl (featuring the voices of Ben Whitehead, Peter Kay, Diane Morgan)

Memoir of a Snail (featuring the voices of Sarah Snook, Eric Bana, Kodi Smit-McPhee)

Orion and the Dark (featuring the voices of Jacob Tremblay, Paul Walter Hauser, Colin Hanks)

Flow (Latvia)

The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (featuring the voices of Eric Bauza, Laraine Newman, Wayne Knight)

Robot Dreams (Spain/France production)

Chicken For Linda (France/Italy production)

Hitpig (featuring the voices of Jason Sudeikis, Rainn Wilson, Lilly Singh)

Dumb and proud of it

Hundreds of Beavers (starring Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, Olivia Graves)

Ricky Stanicky (starring John Cena, Zac Efron, Andrew Santino)

Brothers (starring Peter Dinklage, Josh Brolin, Brendan Fraser)

Chosen Family (starring Heather Graham, Julia Stiles, Thomas Lennon)

Deaner ‘89 (starring Paul Spence, Star Slade, Will Sasso)

Mind-bending, trippy comedies with lots of rules

Tuesday (starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lola Petticrew, Arinze Kene)

Self Reliance (starring Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, Andy Samberg)

Jackpot (starring Awkwafina, John Cena, Simu Liu)

The Present (starring Isla Fisher, Greg Kinnear, Shay Rudolph)

Me, Myself and the Void (starring Kelly Marie Tran)

It’s What’s Inside (starring James Morosini, Brittany O’Grady, Gavin Leatherwood)

Omni Loop (starring Ayo Edebiri, Mary-Louise Parker, Carlos Jacott)

The Secret Art of Human Flight (starring Paul Raci, Grant Rosenmeyer, Lucy DeVito)

The Invisibles (starring Tim Blake Nelson, Gretchen Mol, Bruce Greenwood)

Horror meets Ha Ha

Heretic (starring Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East)

Speak No Evil (starring James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, Scoot McNairy)

Late Night With The Devil (starring David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon, Ian Bliss)

The Front Room (starring Brandy, Kathryn Hunter, Andrew Burnap)

The Humanist Vampire (French-Canadian)

Destroy All Neighbors (starring Jonah Ray, Alex Winter, Jon Daly)

For Sale (starring Andrew Roth, Corinne Britti, Ellie Torrez)

Here For Blood (starring Shawn Roberts, Joelle Farrow, Marc-Andre Boulanger)

Krazy House (starring Nick Frost, Alicia Silverstone, Kevin Connolly)

Mr. Crocket (starring Elvis Nolasco, Ayden Galvin, Alex Akpobome)

The Prank (starring Rita Moreno, Talia Jackson, Nathan Janak)

Founders Day (starring William Russ, Emilia McCarthy, Devin Druid)

The Birthday (starring Corey Feldman, Erica Prior, Jack Taylor)

Get Away (starring Nick Frost, Aisling Bea, Sebastian Croft)

Forever Home (starring Drew Leatham, Sammie Lideen, Cody Hunt)

Departing Seniors (starring Ignacio Diaz-Silverio, Maisie Merlock, Yani Gellman)

Dead Talent Society (Taiwan)

Dead Mail (starring John Fleck, Micah Fitzgerald, Tomas Boykin)

You shouldn’t date that inhuman creature

Lisa Frankenstein (starring Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse, Carla Gugino)

Your Monster (starring Melissa Barrera, Tommy Dewey, Kimiko Glenn)

Intermedium (starring Beau Minniear, Emily Keefe, Jesse Posey)

Unconventional, genre-bending sorta historical recountings

Saturday Night (starring Gabriel LaBelle, Rachel Sennott, JK Simmons)

Unfrosted (starring Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan, Melissa McCarthy)

The Apprentice (starring Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova)

Queer (starring Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman)

Better Man (starring Robbie Williams, Jonno Davies, Steve Pemberton)

Kneecap (starring Michael Fassbender, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh)

Pavements (starring Joe Keery, Stephen Malkmus, Tim Heidecker)

Daaaaaali! (France; directed by Quentin Dupieux)

Winner (starring Kathryn Newton, Zach Galifianakis, Connie Britton)

Shirley (starring Regina King, Lance Reddick, Lucas Hedges)

Joy (starring Thomasin McKenzie, Bill Nighy, James Norton)

Goofy sports flicks

The Gutter (starring Susan Sarandon, Paul Reiser, D’arcy Carden)

The Underdoggs (starring Snoop Dogg, Mike Epps, George Lopez)

Sweet Dreams (starring Johnny Knoxville, Theo Von, Bobby Lee)

You Gotta Believe (starring Luke Wilson, Greg Kinnear, Sarah Gadon)

YOLO (China)

Young people rom-coms

My Old Ass (starring Aubrey Plaza, Maisy Stella, Percy Hynes White)

Incoming (Mason Thames, Kaitlin Olson, Bobby Cannavale)

Prom Dates (starring Antonia Gentry, Patty Guggenheim, Terry Hu)

Parachute (starring Courtney Eaton, Thomas Mann, Joel McHale)

Young Werther (starring Allison Pill, Iris Apatow)

Sweethearts (starring Kiernan Shipka, Chloe Troast, Caleb Hearon)

Technically Together (starring Ripley Cooley, Lucas Booth, Cooper Boothe)

Third Wheel (starring Anthony Casabianca, Jason Tamarkin, Kelsey Tarantino)

Lovebug (starring Logan Pepper)

Elevator (Singapore)

Rom-coms with slightly older people

Matt and Mara (starring Matt Johnson, Deragh Campbell, Simon Reynolds)

Players (starring Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., Tom Ellis)

Max and Molli in the Future (starring Aristotle Athari, Zosia Mamet, Grace Kuhlenschmidt)

Upgraded (starring Camila Mendes, Marisa Tomei, Andrew Schulz)

French Girl (starring Zach Braff, Vanessa Hudgens, Evelyne Brochu)

Irish Wish (starring Lindsay Lohan, Ayesha Curry, Ed Speleers)

Find Me Falling (starring Harry Connick Jr., Ali Fumiko Whitney, Agni Scott)

With Love and a Major Organ (starring Anna Maguire, Hamza Haq, Veena Sood)

The Breaking Ice (China-Singapore)

The Good Half (Nick Jonas, Elisabeth Shue, Matt Walsh)

Which Brings Me To You (starring Lucy Hale, Nat Wolff, Genevieve Angelson)

Running On Empty (starring Keir Gilchrist, Jim Gaffigan, Jay Pharoah)

Wallbanger (starring Kelli Berglund, Amadeus Serafini, Cathy Ang)

This Time Next Year (starring Lucien Laviscount, Sophie Cookson, John Hannah)

Breakup Season (starring Chandler Riggs, Samantha Isler, James Urbaniak)

Mother of the Bride (starring Brooke Shields, Miranda Cosgrove, Benjamin Bratt)

Dandelion (starring Kiki Layne, Thomas Doherty, Melanie Nicholas-King)

My Favourite Cake (Iran)

The Nature of Love (France)

Volveiris (Spain, France)

Gondola (Germany, dialogue-free)

Crime movies with comedic elements

Drive-Away Dolls (starring Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Beanie Feldstein)

The Last Stop In Yuma County (starring Jim Cummings, Faizon Love, Richard Brake)

Greedy People (starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Himesh Patel, Lily James)

LaRoy, Texas (starring John Magaro, Steve Zahn, Dylan Baker)

Carry-On (starring Taron Egerton, Jason Bateman, Dean Norris)

The Killer’s Game (starring Dave Bautista, Terry Crews, Sofia Boutella)

Role Play (starring David Oyelowo, Kaley Cuoco, Bill Nighy)

Lift (starring Kevin Hart, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Vincent D'Onofrio)

Lake George (starring Carrie Coon and Shea Wigham)

Marmalade (starring Joe Keery, Aldis Hodge, Camila Morrone)

The Trouble With Jessica (starring Olivia Williams, Alan Tudyk, Rufus Sewell)

Stealing Jokes (starring Jeff Dye, Michael Rappaport, Ariana DeBose)

The Balconettes (France)

Plastic Guns (France)

Trouble (Sweden)

We’re having a baby! The movie

Babes (starring Ilana Glazer, Michelle Buteau, Hasan Minhaj)

Another Happy Day (starring Lauren Lapkus, Carrie Coon, Tim Kazurinksy)

Scrambled (starring Leah McKendrick, Ego Nwodim, Andrew Santino)

Plan B (starring Jamie Lee, Jon Heder, Subhah Agarwal)

High society skewering

Coup! (starring Peter Sarsgaard, Billy Magnussen, Fisher Stevens)

The Line (starring Alex Wolff, John Malkovich, Halle Bailey)

The Duel (starring Dylan Sprouse, Callan McAuliffe, Patrick Warburton)

Linda (Argentina)

The Arrival (starring Pooyah Mohseni, Peter Bradbury, Nick Hamparyan)

Old folks foibles

Thelma (starring June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Richard Roundtree)

The Fabulous Four (starring Susan Sarandon, Bette Midler, Megan Mullally)

Summer Camp (starring Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard)

Arthur’s Whiskey (starring Diane Keaton, Patricia Hodge, Hayley Mills)

The Last Rifleman (starring Pierce Brosnan, John Amos, Clémence Poésy)

The Nana Project (starring Mercedes Ruehl, Tony Todd, Morgan Fairchild)

I’ll Be Right There (Edie Falco, Michael Rappaport, Charlie Tahan)

Older woman has a relationship with a younger dude

Babygirl (starring Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas)

A Family Affair (starring Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, Joey King)

The Idea Of You (starring Anne Hathaway, Nicholas Galitzine, Reid Scott)

Lonely Planet (starring Laura Dern, Liam Hemsworth, Diana Silvers)

Sly industry sendup

First Time Female Director (starring Chelsea Peretti, Jordan Peele, Amy Poehler)

Microbudget (starring Patrick Noth, Bobby Moynihan, Maria Bamford)

My First Film (starring Odessa Young, Jane Wickline, Phillip Ettinger)

Feel-good heartwarmers

The Supremes At Earl’s All You Can Eat (starring Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Sanaa Lathan and Uzo Aduba)

My Penguin Friend (starring Jean Reno, Adriana Barraza, Rocio Hernandez)

Tokyo Cowboy (Japan)

How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (Thailand)

Dog On Trial (France)

Throwback, family-friendly comedies

If (starring Ryan Reynolds, Steve Carell, John Krasinski)

Harold and the Purple Crayon (starring Zachary Levi, Zooey Deschanel, Jemaine Clement)

The Family Pack (France)

Kangaroo (Australia)

Uncomfortable thrillers with a dark comedic streak

Strange Darling (starring Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Madisen Beaty)

Wicked Little Letters (starring Olivia Colman, Jesse Buckley, Timothy Spall)

MIller’s Girl (starring Martin Freeman, Jenna Ortega, Dagmara Dominczyk)

Mother, Couch (starring Ewan McGregor, Ellen Burstyn, Rhys Ifans)

American Dreamer (starring Peter Dinklage, Shirley MacLaine, Danny Glover)

Comedy that’s way sexier than it has any right to be

Parthenope (starring Celeste Dalla Porta, Stefania Sandrelli, Gary Oldman)

Christmas “comedies”

Red One (starring The Rock, Chris Evans, J.K. Simmons)

Hot Frosty (starring Lacey Chabert, Dustin Milligan, Craig Robinson)

Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point (starring Michael Cera, Elsie Fisher, Gregg Turkington)

Nutcrackers (starring Ben Stiller, Linda Cardellini, a slew of annoying kids)

Dear Santa (starring Jack Black, Keegan Michael Key, shudder Post Malone)

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (starring Judy Greer, Pete Holmes, Lauren Graham)

Our Little Secret (starring Lindsay Lohan, Kristin Chenoweth, Jon Rudnitsky)

Jack In Time For Christmas (starring Jack Whitehall, Michael Bublé, Jimmy Fallon)

A Sudden Case Of Christmas (Danny DeVito, Andie MacDowell, Wilmer Valderrama)

Meet Me Next Christmas (starring Christina Milian, Devale Ellis, Kofi Siriboe)

Get Him Back For Christmas (starring Alexa PenaVega, Alan Powell, Victoria Jackson)

LGBTQUIA+ laughers

Am I Okay? (starring Dakota Johnson, Jermaine Fowler, Tig Notaro)

Good Grief (starring Dan Levy, Luke Evans, Kaitlyn Dever)

Bonus Track (Great Britain; featuring Josh O’Connor)

Summer Solstice (starring Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Marianne Rendón, Mila Myles)

What A Feeling (Austria)

Fantastical goofs

The Invisble Raptor (starring Sean Astin, Larry Hankin, Caitlin McHugh)

Seize Them! (starring Aimee Lou Wood, Nicola Coughlan, Nick Frost)

Road trip with family

Bleeding Love (starring Ewan McGregor, Clara McGregor, Kim Zimmer)

Silly showbiz satire from overseas

Audrey (Australia)

The Spin (Ireland)

Heavier Trip (Finland)

Character study dramedies that are a little heavy on the drama

Ezra (starring Bobby Cannavale, Rose Byrne, Whoopi Goldberg)

Suncoast (starring Woody Harrelson, Laura Linney, Nico Parker)

Reverse The Curse (starring David Duchovny, Logan Marshall-Green, Stephanie Beatriz)

Little Brother (starring J.K. Simmons, Daniel Diemer, Philip Ettinger)

Notice To Quit (starring Michael Zegen, Kasey Bella Suarez, Nell Verlaque)

And Mrs. (starring Aisling Bea, Billie Lourd, Colin Hanks)

Allswell In New York (starring Daphne Rubin-Vega, Bobby Cannavale)

Drive Back Home (starring Alan Cumming, Charlie-Creed Miles, Clare Coulter)

The Critic (starring Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong)

Heightened (starring Sara Friedman, Dave Register, Mike Mitchell)

Empire Waist (starring Mia Kaplan, Missi Pyle, Rainn Wilson)

Goodbye, Hello (starring Steve Guttenberg, Alan Trong, Hollie Bahar)

Allen Sunshine (starring Vincent Leclerc, Joseph Whitebird, Catherine Souffront)

Out of My Mind (starring Phoebe-Rae Taylor, Rosemarie Dewitt, Luke Kirby)

Preachy fish out of water social commentaries about the difficulties of parenting

A Great Divide (starring Ken Jeong)

Goodrich (starring Michael Keaton, Mila Kunis and Andie MacDowell)

The Penguin Lessons (starring Steve Coogan, Jonathan Pryce, a boatload of penguins)

Docs about comedy

Will and Harper (about Will Ferrell’s friendship with Harper Steele)

Brats (about the Brat Pack)

Sorry/Not Sorry (about the Louis C.K. fallout)

Breaking The Fourth Wall (about open mics at a venue called Fourth Wall in LA)

The World According To Allee Willis (about the life of a Pee Wee’s Playhouse artist)

Cringey right-wing attempts at humor

Am I Racist (Matt Walsh goes undercover as a DEI scholar)

Religious fare that looks at Christianity through a comedic lens

The Book of Clarence (starring Lakeith Stanfield, James McAvoy, Benedict Cumberbatch)

Chronicles of a Wandering Saint (Argentina)

Not Another Church Movie (starring Jamie Foxx, Vivica A. Fox, Mickey Rourke)

Unintentionally funny, future cult classic midnight movies

Megalopolis (starring Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza)

Madame Web (starring Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Adam Scott)

The Beekeeper (starring Jason Statham, Josh Hutcherson, Jeremy Irons)

Trap (starring Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan)

Poolman (starring Chris Pine, Annette Bening, Danny DeVito)

Love Bomb (starring Jessie Andrews, Zane Holtz, Josh Caras)

Silly murder mystery

Reunion (starring Lil Rel Howery, Jillian Bell, Billy Magnussen)

Fun-loving war picture

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (starring Henry Cavill, Henry Golding, Cary Elwes)

I knew you’d stick around to the bitter end!

Since we’re still hanging out, I wanted to list movies that are ALMOST comedies or featured comedians or have comedic elements or were released in 2023 and I missed them. They’re close to qualifying for the list but including them would be doing them a disservice.

So, here’s that.

Spaceman (starring Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan, Paul Dano)

The Beast (starring Léa Seydoux, George Mackay, Guslagie Malanda)

How To Have Sex (Daisy Jelley, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Samuel Bottomley)

Fremont (starring Anaita Wali Zada, Gregg Turkington, Jeremy Allen White)

The Room Next Door (starring Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore, John Turturro)

The Unknown Country (starring Lily Gladstone, Raymond Lee, Richard Ray Whitman)

Love Again (starring Priyanka Chopra, Nick Jonas, Celine Dion)

The Legend of Catclaws Mountain (starring Hayden Hishaw,Robert Davi, and Dee Wallace

Wildcat (starring Maya Hawke, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney)

Susie Searches (Kiersey Clemons, Rachel Sennott, Ken Marino)

Love Lies Bleeding (starring Kristen Stewart, Katy O’Brian, Ed Harris)

I Saw The TV Glow (starring Justice Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Fred Durst)

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Thailand)

Tell That To The Winter Sea (starring Amber Anderson, Greta Bellamacina, Jessica Plummer)

Sing Sing (starring Colman Domingo, Clarence Maclin, Paul Raci)

Fair Play (starring Alden Ehrenreich, Phoebe Dynevor, Eddie Marsan)

Last Summer (France)

Grand Tour (Portugal)

Wicked (starring Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Bowen Yang)

Challengers (starring Zendaya, Mike Faist, Josh O’Connor)

OK, now we’re really done. I think?