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The Comedy
Directed by
Rick Alverson
R
2012
1h 33m
Comedy
,
Drama
6.3
50%
55%
5.8
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Indifferent to the notion of inheriting his father's estate, a restless, aging New Yorker passes time with his friends in games of mock sincerity, irreverence, and recreational cruelty towards those around them.
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Cast of The Comedy
Tim Heidecker
Swanson
Eric Wareheim
Van Arman
James Murphy
Ben
Kate Lyn Sheil
Waitress
Adam Scarimbolo
Restaurant Manager
Gregg Turkington
Bobby
Alexia Rasmussen
Young Woman
Grace Rex
Hospital Nurse
Liza Kate
Sister-In-Law
Rock Kohli
Raj
Richard Swift
Richard
Will Sheff
Will
Seth Koen
Male nurse
Angus Hepburn
Wealthy Man
Grace Kiley
Wealthy Woman
Ryan Raftery
Antique shop patron
Yianni Kool
Taxi Driver
Roxanne Ferris
Woman Mistaken For Prostitute
Rick Alverson
Director / Writer
Robert Donne
Writer
The Comedy Ratings & Reviews
Dig Boston
Monica Castillo
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.
Film Comment Magazine
Nicolas Rapold
While this could have been the perfect portrait of a certain kind of idiot, the baroque cruelties and tonal monotony go too far.
Boxoffice Magazine
David Ehrlich
An essential portrait of a generation of people laughing so hard that they've forgotten the joke is on them.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
The longest and dreariest 94 minutes I've spent on a movie this year.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
None of this is necessarily funny. That's the extent of the irony here.
Austin Chronicle
Leah Churner
All this is credible enough until Swanson exits the airtight bubble of his peers to bully New York City at large.
Arizona Republic
Barbara VanDenburgh
The joke, I guess, is that there's nothing funny about "The Comedy."
San Francisco Chronicle
David Lewis
A mean-spirited piece of mumblecore that tries to provoke you, but only succeeds in boring you.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
A character study that tries to make the revolting compelling.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
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 the joke is on you.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
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.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
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.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
Its audience may be self-selective in the extreme, but few films have better articulated the limits of irony as a force field against the world.
Village Voice
Karina Longworth
There's not a false note in the film, but maybe there's a difference between accuracy and truth.
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
The anomie of entitlement pushed to poisonous extremes is the basis of this provocation, which is as frustrating as it is intriguing.
Slant Magazine
Joseph Jon Lanthier
Tim Heidecker's Swanson does not amuse us in spite of the pity he inspires but because of it.
Film.com
William Goss
A seemingly sincere movie about a deeply ironic and unfulfilled man as he belongs to a culture - hell, maybe even an entire generation - terrified of sincerity.
IFC.com
Jordan Hoffman
a challenging film that may ultimately be bulls***, [but] deserves tremendous respect for its clarity of vision.
Village Voice
Aaron Hillis
Transgressively brilliant... an itchy critique of entitlement starring avant-garde comedian Tim Heidecker as one of Williamsburg's overprivileged.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
This is, in effect, "Arthur" meets "Jackass."
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