Bill Murray

Admirably scruffy in its droll comic pursuits, but has all the storytelling aplomb of a Sunday-funnies section.

Has little more ambition than to make Murray the funny valentine of one of Jarmusch's mood pieces....indeed, some of the best moments are wordless.

Bottom line: with Murray on fire and enough clever dialogue to rival its predecessor, Ghostbusters II is good enough to put post-milennial comedy to shame.

Dan Aykroyd's inventive comedy concept for Ghostbusters attracted an all-star comedy team to bust out a classic of mainstream '80s cinema.

You know, I don't remember the fart and pee jokes in The Wizard of Oz or the old Disney classics or the Muppet movies. Crotch-biting, of course, comes from a long tradition. Hmm.

A memorable comedy for the ages, Groundhog Day digs deeper than most magic-realist comedies...

Though the film, by necessity, expands Dahl's original story and fuses it to the sensibility of Anderson, author and auteur share a common tone of twisted twee...

Despite being ungainly, Caddyshack is the kind of comedy you can pan for gold in...

A welcome late-career showcase for Robert Duvall...fits snugly into the traditions of Southern literature, particularly the tensions between gentility and eccentricity, the community and the individual, and man and God.

If you weren't a kid when you first saw Space Jam, you're a lot less likely to find it palatable.

Moonrise Kingdom’s heartfelt search and rescue of a feel-good result provides a perfect, even musical counterpoint to its regimented summer camp.

It all feels a bit like an overearnest deleted subplot from someone else's war epic, rather than a confident Clooney picture.

Favreau and Marks have obviously put some thought into the film’s visual approach and the messages...: the animal kingdom’s unexpected threats and opportunities...the work Mowgli puts in to come of age...his casual kindheartedness...