Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges: Screwball Comet

Swing Vote offers change you can't believe in

Presidential candidates vie (and pander and plead) for one heart and mind in the election-themed comedy

Leatherheads stopped at fourth and inches

George Clooneys ode to screwball comedies of yore is sooooo close. But yet.

Life's Poor Pageant

Beauty-contest comedy 'Little Miss Sunshine' comes in last

No Payne, No Gain?

A celebrated auteur's sideways glance meets a rare hard look

We Heart Huckabees!

The Everything Movie lands on all four of our film critics' top 10 lists

Analyze This

The Everything Movie lands on all four of our film critics' top 10 lists

No Depression

The Coen Brothers grant Ulysses a Southern setting in their Thirties-style road saga O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Kick the Cannes

Dim efforts by Roland Joffé, the Coen Brothers, Lars von Trier, Neil LaBute, and John Waters darken the screens of the world's flashiest film fest

Turn of the Screwball

The democratic comedies of Preston Sturges give uncommon words to the common man

The Celluloid Plantation

Play it again, Melvin: Dooley Wilson (in Casablanca) and Melvin Van Peebles in Melvin Van Peebles: Classified X

Funny Business

From Buck Privates to The Bank Dick, 10 vintage comedies show off a studio's Universal appeal.

Never Set In Stone

From Buck Privates to The Bank Dick, 10 vintage comedies show off a studio's Universal appeal.