Rebecca has a barista gig and is eager to get her own place Enid can’t hold a job, and is lost in the abyss of punk attitude and occupational malaise.

The movie stars Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson as Enid and Rebecca, two recent graduates moving in opposite directions. The film is an elegy to the rebellious Gen X dream, and a crash course in existence for all 18-year-olds who followed. Was I high? We’ll never know for sure, but 15 years later, it’s so much more, weaving together hyper-detailed comedy on the level of The Simpsons with a tragic journey of identity. When I saw Ghost World as an actual high schooler, it felt a bit like getting a live-action Daria movie. Ghost World Image: Criterion Collectionīefore the “dark comedy” label lost all meaning, Crumb director Terry Zwigoff and graphic novelist Daniel Clowes adapted Clowes’ own comic into one of the funniest, bleakest movies in the teen genre. As Roxana Hadidi wrote in her review for Polygon, “ Freaky is committed to a cheeky upending of genre conventions, with a concluding act that delivers one last bloody thrill amusing and gory enough to still be an entertaining slasher movie with its own satisfying spin on the final-girl trope.” - Toussaint Eganįreaky is available to stream on HBO Max. A twist on the premise of Freaky Friday, the film centers on a teenage girl (Newton) who accidentally switches bodies with a middle-aged serial killer (Vaughn) and must find a way to switch back while avoiding being murdered herself. Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon tries his hand at the body swap subgenre with his 2020 slasher comedy Freaky starring Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton. Bad Trip is the Mad Max: Fury Road of fucking with people, and it didn’t surprise me in the least to see Jackass mastermind Jeff Tremaine’s name among the producers.”īad Trip is available to stream on Netflix. Polygon’s own Matt Patches gave the film a glowing endorsement last March when he wrote, “From Andre bursting through the glass door of an unsuspecting stranger’s house to a dance sequence fail staged among food-court diners to a full-on zoo attack by a horny ape, the 90-minute comedy is a master class in how production value can be used to pull off high-impact pranks. So, with that in mind, we’ve sifted through the libraries of the most popular streaming services to bring you our top picks for the 7 best comedies streaming right now.Įric Andre and Lil Rel Howery star in Kitao Sakurai’s hidden camera comedy Bad Trip as best friends Chris and Bud who embark on a road trip from Florida to New York City so Chris can propose to his high school crush (Michaela Conlin). And between streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, and HBO Max, there’s never been a greater wealth or assortment of comedies to choose from or available at the click of a button.

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