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Alexander Payne again. Reese Witherspoon’s overachieving Tracy Flick and Matthew Broderick’s miserable teacher Jim McAllister turn a high school student body election into a war of morals. The comedy is pitch-black: McAllister’s life unravels because he can’t stand a teenage girl’s ambition. It’s a brilliant look at entitlement, resentment, and the adult inability to let go of petty grudges. Every laugh comes with a wince.

Before Apatow became a brand, Knocked Up asked a genuinely adult question: What if a one-night stand leads to a baby, and the guy is a total loser? Seth Rogen’s slacker and Katherine Heigl’s rising TV host don’t belong together, and the movie knows it. The comedy is in the awkward co-parenting, the terrible advice from friends, and the realization that “growing up” doesn’t happen overnight. It’s messy, overlong, and real. best adult comedy movies

If you think government is a dignified affair, Armando Iannucci’s savage satire will cure you. Peter Capaldi’s Malcolm Tucker unleashes creative, scatological tirades that are Shakespearean in their vulgarity. The comedy is dense, fast, and brutal—about bureaucratic incompetence, media manipulation, and how a stupid war gets started because no one wants to admit they’re wrong. It’s the smartest dumb movie ever made. Alexander Payne again

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Armando Iannucci again, this time in Soviet Russia. As Stalin’s cronies scramble for power after his stroke, the comedy is panic-driven and grotesque. Steve Buscemi’s wily Khrushchev, Simon Russell Beale’s monstrous Beria, and Jeffrey Tambor’s cowardly Malenkov create a symphony of backstabbing. The joke is that these are the men who ran a superpower—and they’re all terrified, petty children. It’s hysterical, then horrifying, then hysterical again.