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The threescore All-time Black Comedies, Ranked By Tomatometer

Allow's say you're the type to laugh while handling the darkest subject field matters: Murder, doomsday, blackmail, and peradventure even a lil' tasty cannibalism. If so, twisted friend, y'all sure accept arrived at the right spot to go your gallows guffaws: The 60 Best Dark Comedies, Ranked by Tomatometer!

All this night material ranges in variation of glib macabre glee, unlike styles that nosotros'll impact upon in our pick of the all-time-reviewed funny blackness comedies. Nearly common are movies nigh murder and the subsequent roofing-upwardly, peculiarly when the corpses have a habit of popping up at the most inconvenient times. Think Best Pic-winning Parasite, Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Hitchcock's The Trouble With Harry.

Another fashion of the black one-act movie: Mining jokes out of political fallout when millions of lives are at stake, as seen in Dr. Strangelove, In the Loop, and The Producers. Or how about movies that become you on the serial killer's side, similar existence on the ride for The Voices or Monsieur Verdoux. They twist you around enough to make yous experience amusingly guilty hoping they'll become away with it all.

The emergence of the black one-act movie seemed to come around in the 1940s, when filmmaking had evolved plenty to artistically interpret real-world horrors (due east.g. World War II) with mordant sense of humour, as seen in To Be or Not to Exist and Arsenic and Old Lace. Of form, how would they have known their groundbreaking path through the dark side would eventually come to the taboo of cannibalism, as seen in appetizing films like Delicatessen and Eating Raoul? And lest yous presume we're non in bear on with our more than subtle side when it comes to comedy of the damned, we've included philosophical destroyers Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?, Carnage, and the vivid Withnail and I.

Major players in the realm of night comedies include condition quo-defecating John Waters (Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos), Martin McDonagh (In Bruges, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Todd Solondz (Happiness, Welcome to the Dollhouse), and the devilish Danny DeVito (The War of the Roses, Ruthless People). Our final stipulation for their movies and everything else on the list is that each had to be rated Fresh, and accept at least 20 reviews, to ensure plenty critics accept shared in the gleeful discomfort.

It's a mad, mad, mad, mad (experience free to keep adding more) world out there these days: Grab life past the ruffled lapel and throw it into the wood chipper with The 60 All-time Black Comedies, Ranked!

#sixty

Adjusted Score: 70663%

Critics Consensus: Good and evil collide with interesting results in Adam's Apples, a dark Biblical apologue that's alternatively funny and shocking.

Synopsis: Following a stint in jail, Adam (Ulrich Thomsen), a sometime neo-Nazi, is temporarily assigned to live in a religious enclave.... [More]

#59

Adapted Score: 77683%

Critics Consensus: It isn't as compelling on the screen every bit it was on the stage, but Carnage makes upwardly for its flaws with Polanski'southward smoothen direction and assured performances from Winslet and Foster.

Synopsis: When some roughhousing between two eleven-year-old boys named Zachary and Ethan erupts into real violence, Ethan loses 2 teeth. Zachary'due south... [More]

#58

Adjusted Score: 75110%

Critics Consensus: Undeniably uneven and too dark for some, The Ref notwithstanding boasts stiff turns from Denis Leary, Judy Davis, and Kevin Spacey, besides as a sharply funny script.

Synopsis: Bickering spouses (Judy Davis, Kevin Spacey) annoy the cat burglar (Denis Leary) who takes them hostage in their Connecticut home.... [More than]

#57

Adjusted Score: 77530%

Critics Consensus: The Voices gives Ryan Reynolds an opportunity to evangelize a highlight-reel performance -- and offers an off-kilter treat for fans of black comedies.

Synopsis: A mentally unhinged manufacturing plant worker (Ryan Reynolds) must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer,... [More than]

#56

Adjusted Score: 76026%

Critics Consensus: Better Off Dead is an anarchic mix of blackness humor and surreal comedy, anchored by John Cusack'south winsome, charming performance.

Synopsis: Lane Meyer (John Cusack) is a teen with a peculiar family and a baroque fixation with his girlfriend, Beth (Amanda... [More]

#55

Adjusted Score: 77959%

Critics Consensus: Robert Zemeckis' pitch-black satire of American culture doesn't always hit the mark, but it's got enough manic comic energy to warrant a spin.

Synopsis: Rudy Russo (Kurt Russell) is an unscrupulous automobile salesman who aspires to become a politician. In the meantime, however, Rudy... [More than]

#54

Adapted Score: 77989%

Critics Consensus: A modern update on the tale of Piddling Red Riding Hood, Freeway is an adventurous black comedy with a star-making functioning from the immature Reese Witherspoon.

Synopsis: Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona (Amanda Plummer), immature Vanessa Lutz (Reese Witherspoon) decides to go in search of... [More]

#53

Adjusted Score: 86237%

Critics Consensus: A gloriously rude and gleefully offensive black one-act, Bad Santa isn't for everyone, but grinches will observe information technology uproariously funny.

Synopsis: In this dark one-act, the crotchety Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton) and his partner (Tony Cox) reunite once a... [More than]

#52

Adjusted Score: 87737%

Critics Consensus: With Burn Subsequently Reading, the Coen Brothers have crafted another clever comedy/thriller with an outlandish plot and memorable characters.

Synopsis: When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA annotator (John Malkovich) falls into the hands of Linda Litzke (Frances... [More]

#51

Adjusted Score: 82484%

Critics Consensus: Catch-22 takes entertainingly cluttered aim at the insanity of armed conflict, supported by a terrific cast and smart, funny work from Buck Henry and Mike Nichols.

Synopsis: This scathing war satire follows Capt. John Yossarian (Alan Arkin), a pilot stationed in the Mediterranean who flies bombing missions... [More]

#fifty

Adjusted Score: 86412%

Critics Consensus: Violent, darkly comic, and total of potent performances, Killer Joe proves William Friedkin hasn't lost his touch, fifty-fifty if the plot may be besides lurid for some.

Synopsis: A cop (Matthew McConaughey) who moonlights as a hitting human agrees to kill the hated mother of a drastic drug... [More]

#49

Adjusted Score: 86395%

Critics Consensus: Uproarious and appalling, Pink Flamingos is transgressive campsite that proves as entertaining as it does shocking.

Synopsis: A bizarre fatty woman (Divine) and her misfit family compete with a Baltimore couple (David Lochary, Mink Stole) to be... [More]

#48

Adjusted Score: 85080%

Critics Consensus: A high-concept high schoolhouse reunion movie with an adroitly bandage John Cusack and armed with a script of incisive wit.

Synopsis: After assassinator Martin Blank (John Cusack) has trouble focusing on his work, resulting in a failed assignment, he returns to... [More]

#47

Adapted Score: 83870%

Critics Consensus: Happiness is far from a cheerful viewing experience, but its grimly humorous script and fearless performances produce a perversely moving search for humanity within everyday depravity.

Synopsis: This dark ensemble-comedy is centered on the iii Jordan sisters. Joy (Jane Adams) moves through lackluster jobs with no sense... [More than]

#46

Adapted Score: 100323%

Critics Consensus: T2 Trainspotting adds an intoxicating, emotionally resonant postscript to its classic predecessor, even without fully recapturing the original's fresh, subversive thrill.

Synopsis: Commencement there was an opportunity, so there was a betrayal. Xx years later, Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the... [More]

#45

Adjusted Score: 91707%

Critics Consensus: Seven Psychopaths delivers sly cinematic commentary while serving upwardly a heaping helping of sharp dialogue and gleeful violence.

Synopsis: Boozy writer Marty (Colin Farrell) is a man in search of a screenplay. He has a catchy title only no... [More than]

#44

Adjusted Score: 86326%

Critics Consensus: The Brand New Testament takes a surreal, subversive, and funny expect at Biblical themes through a modern -- and refreshingly original -- lens.

Synopsis: God is discovered living in Brussels with his daughter.... [More than]

#43

Adjusted Score: 86960%

Critics Consensus: Men & Chicken'south bizarre setup only skims the surface of a challenging, well-acted comedy with a warm heart to match its grotesque visuals and dark themes.

Synopsis: Ii outcast brothers get to know their biological family unit and find the horrible truth about themselves and their relatives.... [More than]

#42

Adapted Score: 87279%

Critics Consensus: Its premise suggests brazenly tasteless sense of humour, merely Four Lions is actually a smart, pitch-black comedy that carries the unmistakable ring of truth.

Synopsis: A group of young Muslim men living in Sheffield decide to wage jihad, and they hatch an inept plan to... [More]

#41

Adapted Score: 89725%

Critics Consensus: Hal Ashby'southward one-act is too nighttime and twisted for some, and occasionally oversteps its bounds, just there'southward no denying the film's warm humor and big heart.

Synopsis: Cult classic pairs Cort as a dead-pan disillusioned 20-year-quondam obsessed with suicide and a loveable Gordon as a fun-loving 80-year-old... [More]

#40

Adjusted Score: 93053%

Critics Consensus: The Art of Cocky-Defense force grapples compellingly with modern American masculinity -- and serves as an outstanding calling bill of fare for writer-director Riley Stearns.

Synopsis: After getting attacked on the street, Casey enlists in a local dojo that's led by a charismatic and mysterious sensei.... [More]

#39

Adapted Score: 91521%

Critics Consensus: Featuring witty dialogue and deft performances, In Bruges is an effective mix of dark comedy and crime thriller elements.

Synopsis: After a particularly difficult chore, striking men Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson) caput to Belgium to hibernate out... [More]

#38

Adapted Score: 85835%

Critics Consensus: The War of the Roses is a black comedy made even funnier by hanging onto its caustic convictions -- and further distinguished past Danny DeVito's fashionable direction.

Synopsis: After 17 years of union, Barbara (Kathleen Turner) and Oliver Rose (Michael Douglas) want out. The trouble is, neither ane... [More]

#37

Adjusted Score: 92842%

Critics Consensus: Tongue-in-cheek satire blends well with entertaining activeness and spot-on performances in this dark, eclectic neo-noir homage.

Synopsis: Two-bit crook Harry Lockhart (Robert Downey Jr.) stumbles into an audience for a mystery film while on the run from... [More than]

#36

Adjusted Score: 99836%

Critics Consensus: With a talented cast turned loose on a loaded premise -- and a sharp script loaded with dark comedy and unexpected twists -- Game Night might be more fun than the real matter.

Synopsis: Max and Annie's weekly game dark gets kicked up a notch when Max's brother Brooks arranges a murder mystery political party... [More]

#35

Adjusted Score: 82050%

Critics Consensus: Eating Raoul serves upwards its spectacularly lurid tale with a healthy heaping of pitch-blackness humour and anarchic vigor.

Synopsis: The absurd Blands (Paul Bartel, Mary Woronov) lure swingers home to be conked by a skillet, robbed and removed by... [More]

#34

Adjusted Score: 89438%

Critics Consensus: In Order of Disappearance'southward black comedy doesn't ever hit its targets, but on the whole, information technology even so adds up to a sly, entertaining revenge thriller.

#33

Adapted Score: 99823%

Critics Consensus: Led past stiff performances from Aubrey Plaza and Elizabeth Olsen, Ingrid Goes West delivers smart, topical sense of humor underlined by timely social observations.

Synopsis: Following the death of her female parent and a series of cocky-inflicted setbacks, young Ingrid Thorburn escapes a humdrum existence by... [More]

#32

Adjusted Score: 85435%

Critics Consensus: No consensus nonetheless.

Synopsis: Author and notorious marriage detractor Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) falls for girl-side by side-door Elaine Harper (Priscilla Lane), and they necktie the... [More]

#31

Adapted Score: 89674%

Critics Consensus: Director John Waters' affection for camp brings texture to societal transgression in Female Trouble, a brazenly subversive dive into celebrity and mayhem.

Synopsis: An obese woman (Divine) gives birth to an obnoxious child and embarks upon a bizarre and violent life of crime.... [More]

#30

Adapted Score: 91796%

Critics Consensus: Gleefully nasty and darkly hilarious, Inexpensive Thrills lives down to its title in the all-time possible way.

Synopsis: A series of escalating bets pits recently reunited friends against each other.... [More]

#29

Adapted Score: 92602%

Critics Consensus: World'due south Greatest Dad is a risky, deadpan, nighttime comedy that effectively explores the nature of posthumous cults of celebrity.

Synopsis: When the son of high school English teacher Lance Clayton (Robin Williams) accidentally kills himself, Clayton writes a faux suicide... [More]

#28

Adjusted Score: 103162%

Critics Consensus: As foreign as it is thrillingly aggressive, The Lobster is definitely an caused taste -- but for viewers with the fortitude to crack through Yorgos Lanthimos' offbeat sensibilities, it should prove a savory cinematic treat.

Synopsis: In a dystopian club, unmarried people must find a mate within 45 days or be transformed into an brute of... [More]

#27

Adjusted Score: 95183%

Critics Consensus: Bursting with frantic energy and tinged with black humor, Later on Hours is a masterful -- and often overlooked -- detour in Martin Scorsese's filmography.

Synopsis: In a Manhattan cafe, word processor Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) meets and talks literature with Marcy (Rosanna Arquette). Later that... [More]

#26

Adapted Score: 92723%

Critics Consensus: Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet deftly combines horror, sci-fi, and humor in Delicatessen, a morbid comedy set in a visually ravishing futuristic dystopia.

Synopsis: Clapet (Jean-Claude Dreyfus) is a butcher who owns a run-downward flat building in mail-apocalyptic France. The building is in constant... [More than]

#25

Adjusted Score: 94931%

Critics Consensus: An outstanding sophomore characteristic, Welcome to the Dollhouse sees author-director Todd Solondz mining suburban teen angst for black, biting comedy.

Synopsis: Eye-school pupil Dawn Weiner (Heather Matarazzo) faces degradation at school -- where she is teased constantly -- and at home.... [More]

#24

Adjusted Score: 98113%

Critics Consensus: A hilarious satire of the business side of Hollywood, The Producers is one of Mel Brooks' finest, also as funniest films, featuring standout performances by Gene Wilder and Aught Mostel.

Synopsis: Down and out producer Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel), who was once the toast of Broadway, trades sexual favors with old... [More]

#23

Adjusted Score: 98202%

Critics Consensus: Blending dark humor with profoundly personal themes, the Coen brothers deliver what might exist their most mature -- if not their best -- film to date.

Synopsis: Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) is a physics professor at a 1960s university, but his life is coming autonomously at the... [More than]

#22

Adjusted Score: 122095%

Critics Consensus: 3 Billboards Exterior Ebbing, Missouri deftly balances black comedy against searing drama -- and draws unforgettable performances from its veteran bandage forth the mode.

Synopsis: After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter'south murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold movement, painting three... [More than]

#21

Adjusted Score: 89937%

Critics Consensus: No consensus however.

Synopsis: When a local man's corpse appears on a nearby hillside, no one is quite sure what happened to him. Many... [More]

#20

Adjusted Score: 94633%

Critics Consensus: As proudly tacky as its titular material, Polyester finds writer-director John Waters moving ever and then slightly into the mainstream without losing any of his subversive amuse.

Synopsis: A frustrated housewife, Francine Fishpaw (Divine), tries to maintain her sanity while taking intendance of her dysfunctional household. Elmer (David... [More]

#19

Adapted Score: 90263%

Critics Consensus: The Firemen's Ball is an uproarious comedy of incompetence, mining laughs and sharp satire from an allegory that is agreeable and distressing in equal measure.

Synopsis: In Milos Forman'southward satire on Communism set in a pocket-sized Czechoslovakian town in the 1960s, the local firemen determine to... [More]

#xviii

Adapted Score: 95263%

Critics Consensus: A brutal, ofttimes times funny, other times terrifying portrayal of drug addiction in Edinburgh. Non for the faint of middle, only well worth viewing every bit a realistic and entertaining reminder of the horrors of drug use.

Synopsis: Heroin addict Marker Renton (Ewan McGregor) stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy... [More]

#17

Adjusted Score: 106288%

Critics Consensus: A thrilling bound forward for director Alejandro González Iñárritu, Birdman is an aggressive technical showcase powered by a layered story and outstanding performances from Michael Keaton and Edward Norton.

Synopsis: One-time cinema superhero Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton) is mounting an ambitious Broadway production that he hopes volition breathe new life... [More]

#16

Adapted Score: 96232%

Critics Consensus: Dark, cynical, and destructive, Heathers gently applies a chainsaw to the conventions of the loftier school movie -- changing the game for teen comedies to follow.

Synopsis: Veronica (Winona Ryder) is office of the most pop clique at her high school, but she disapproves of the other... [More]

#15

Adjusted Score: 100402%

Critics Consensus: Vehement, quirky, and darkly funny, Fargo delivers an original crime story and a wonderful operation by McDormand.

Synopsis: "Fargo" is a reality-based crime drama prepare in Minnesota in 1987. Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) is a car salesman... [More than]

#fourteen

Adjusted Score: 91698%

Critics Consensus: Richard East. Grant and Paul McGann prove irresistibly hilarious as two misanthropic slackers in Withnail and I, a biting test of artists living on the fringes of prosperity and expert taste.

Synopsis: Two out-of-piece of work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood (Paul McGann) and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail (Richard E. Grant) --... [More]

#13

Adjusted Score: 96684%

Critics Consensus: It's sometimes rough and tasteless, but Ruthless People wrings acid-soaked laughs out of its nighttime premise and gleefully misanthropic characters.

Synopsis: Sam Rock (Danny DeVito) hates his married woman, Barbara (Bette Midler), so much that he wants her dead. He's ecstatic when... [More]

#12

Adjusted Score: 100045%

Critics Consensus: In the Loop is an uncommonly funny political satire that blends Dr. Strangelove with Spinal Tap for the Iraq war era.

Synopsis: During an interview, British Cabinet Minister Simon Foster (Tom Hollander) delivers an off-the-gage remark that state of war in the Middle East... [More than]

#11

Adapted Score: 100169%

Critics Consensus: Led past a volcanic operation from Elizabeth Taylor, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a scathing adaptation of the Edward Albee play that serves as a brilliant calling carte for debuting director Mike Nichols.

Synopsis: History professor George (Richard Burton) and his boozy wife, Martha (Elizabeth Taylor), return late one Saturday night from a cocktail... [More]

#x

Adjusted Score: 109316%

Critics Consensus: The Death of Stalin finds managing director/co-writer Arnando Iannucci in riotous class, bringing his scabrous political humor to affect a chapter in history with painfully timely parallels.

Synopsis: When tyrannical dictator Joseph Stalin dies in 1953, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic ability struggle to become... [More than]

#ix

Adapted Score: 97716%

Critics Consensus: Charles Chaplin adds an undercurrent of malice to his comedic persona in Monsieur Verdoux, an unsettling satire that subverts the tramp's image to perversely amusing upshot.

Synopsis: Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin) is a dapper Parisian family unit man who loses his job as a bank clerk. In order... [More]

#8

Adjusted Score: 100556%

Critics Consensus: A circuitous and timely satire with as much darkness as slapstick, Ernst Lubitsch'due south To Be or Not To Be delicately balances humor and ethics.

Synopsis: Interim couple Joseph (Jack Benny) and Maria Tura (Carole Lombard) are managing a theatrical troupe when the Nazis invade Poland.... [More]

#7

Adapted Score: 101547%

Critics Consensus: Brazil, Terry Gilliam's visionary Orwellian fantasy, is an audacious dark comedy, filled with strange, imaginative visuals.

Synopsis: Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) escapes the monotony of his 24-hour interval-to-24-hour interval life through a recurring daydream of himself every bit... [More]

#half-dozen

Adjusted Score: 105644%

Critics Consensus: Stanley Kubrick's brilliant Cold State of war satire remains as funny and razor-sharp today equally it was in 1964.

Synopsis: A film about what could happen if the wrong person pushed the wrong button -- and it played the situation... [More]

#5

Adjusted Score: 127910%

Critics Consensus: An urgent, brilliantly layered expect at timely social themes, Parasite finds writer-director Bong Joon Ho in near-total command of his craft.

Synopsis: Greed and form bigotry threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.... [More]

#four

Adjusted Score: 101555%

Critics Consensus: No consensus notwithstanding.

Synopsis: The Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling freak-show, is a front for a band of psychotic kidnappers and murderers.... [More than]

#3

Adjusted Score: 102583%

Critics Consensus: The Ladykillers is a macabre slow-fire with quirky performances of fifty-fifty quirkier characters.

Synopsis: Mrs. Wilberforce (Katie Johnson) likes to report suspicious beliefs to the police force. Unaware of her reputation, the dapper thief Professor... [More]

#ii

Adjusted Score: 96276%

Critics Consensus: Elaine May is a comedic dynamo both behind and in front of the camera in this viciously funny screwball farce, with able support provided by Walter Matthau.

Synopsis: A spoiled and self-absorbed man who has squandered his inheritance, Henry Graham (Walter Matthau) is drastic to find a style... [More]

#1

Adapted Score: 104508%

Critics Consensus: Performed with chameleonic brio by Alec Guinness, Kind Hearts and Coronets is a triumphant farce.

Synopsis: When his mother eloped with an Italian opera vocalizer, Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) was cut off from her aristocratic family.... [More]

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