Critically acclaimed Comedy movies on amazon prime

Monsieur Lazhar(2011)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 78

At a Montréal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own recent loss is revealed.



Chi-Raq(2015)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.



Brittany Runs a Marathon(2019)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A young woman decides to make positive changes in her life by training for the New York City Marathon.



Election(1999)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections, particularly with an obsessive overachiever determined to become student body president.



Café Society(2016)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 77

In the 1930s, a Bronx native moves to Hollywood and falls in love with a young woman who is seeing a married man.



Last Flag Flying(2017)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.



Le Week-End(2013)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 76

A British couple return to Paris many years after their honeymoon there in an attempt to rejuvenate their marriage.



Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot(2018)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 76

On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.



Arthur Christmas(2011)

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Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Santa's clumsy son Arthur gets put on a mission with St. Nick's father to give out a present they misplaced to a young girl in less than 2 hours.



Igby Goes Down(2002)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.



Prince Avalanche(2013)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.



Juliet, Naked(2018)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Juliet, Naked is the story of Annie (the long-suffering girlfriend of Duncan) and her unlikely transatlantic romance with once revered, now faded, singer-songwriter, Tucker Crowe, who also happens to be the subject of Duncan's musical obsession.



The Lost City(2022)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A reclusive romance novelist on a book tour with her cover model gets swept up in a kidnapping attempt that lands them both in a cutthroat jungle adventure.



The Dictator(2012)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

The heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.



Despicable Me 2(2013)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

When Gru, the world's most super-bad turned super-dad has been recruited by a team of officials to stop lethal muscle and a host of Gru's own, He has to fight back with new gadgetry, cars, and more minion madness.



Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues(2013)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

With the '70s behind him, San Diego's top-rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm.



Tower Heist(2011)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

When a group of hard-working guys find out they've fallen victim to their wealthy employer's Ponzi scheme, they conspire to rob his high-rise residence.



Whiskey Tango Foxtrot(2016)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A journalist recounts her wartime coverage in Afghanistan.



Love Actually(2003)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.



Role Models(2008)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Wild behavior forces a pair of energy drink reps to enroll in a Big Brother program.




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