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Sunday, January 28, 2024

What's the Best Comedy of the 1990s?


I provide the answer over at Cracked.

Posted by Tim Grierson at 12:00 PM
Labels: adam sandler, albert brooks, alexander payne, ben stiller, bill murray, cracked, farrelly brothers, jim carrey, list mania, matthew broderick, reese witherspoon, the '90s, woody allen, woody harrelson
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Senior U.S. critic for Screen International. My writing appears at Rolling Stone, Vulture and the Los Angeles Times. My latest book is This Is How You Make a Movie. I'm also the author of Martin Scorsese in Ten Scenes and Public Enemy: Inside the Terrordome. Other books: FilmCraft: Screenwriting, Wilco: Sunken Treasure, and Blinking Lights and Other Revelations: The Story of Eels. (I'm also co-author of FilmCraft: Cinematography.) Email me at grierson@hotmail.com.
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