Looking for a laugh? Check out this week's lineup of comedies showing on the big screen in and around Atlanta.
Here are the best comedy films to catch in theaters, based on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer Score, which reflects the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics.
(Movie descriptions courtesy The Movie Database; showtimes via Fandango. Movie ratings and showtimes are subject to change.)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
Boasting a Tomatometer Score of 98 percent and an Audience Score of 89 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, this '70s classic is a critical darling.
The Chicago Reader's Jonathan Rosenbaum said, "Luis Buñuel's 1972 comic masterpiece, about three well-to-do couples who try and fail to have a meal together, is perhaps the most perfectly achieved and executed of all his late French films." Variety noted, "Luis Buñuel adds another fine film to his solid record with this surrealistically oriented tale of so-called bourgeois types."
It's screening at Plaza Theatre (1049 Ponce De Leon Avenue NE) through Thursday, June 13. Click here for showtimes and tickets.
Booksmart
Two academic teenage superstars realize, on the eve of their high school graduation, that they should have worked less and played more. Determined to never fall short of their peers, the girls set out on a mission to cram four years of fun into one night.
With a Tomatometer Score of 97 percent and an Audience Score of 89 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, "Booksmart" has gotten stellar reviews since its release on May 24.
"'Booksmart' puts a fresh spin on the coming-of-age night-of comedy because it's focused on two girls, one of whom is also queer," according to Erin Keane of Salon.com. The Globe and Mail's Chandler Levack said, "'Booksmart' is a love letter for any young woman who has ever stayed home on a Friday night to watch a Ken Burns documentary."
Catch it on the big screen at AMC Phipps Plaza 14 (3500 Peachtree Road NE) through Thursday, June 13. Click here for showtimes and tickets.
Late Night
A legendary late-night talk show host's world is turned upside down when she hires her only female staff writer. Originally intended to smooth over diversity concerns, her decision has unexpectedly hilarious consequences as the two women, separated by culture and generation, are united by their love of a biting punchline.
Set to be released on Friday, June 14, "Late Night" already has a Tomatometer Score of 78 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
The New York Times' A.O. Scott said, "Rather than scourging the complacency and hypocrisy of television, it subjects the medium to a vigorous exfoliating scrub in the name of feminism and inclusiveness," while Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times noted, "Doing all that can't have been easy, but making it seem like it was may be the most satisfying of 'Late Night's' many agreeable accomplishments."
Catch it on the big screen at AMC Phipps Plaza 14 (3500 Peachtree Road NE) through Thursday, June 20. Click here for showtimes and tickets.
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