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Unrepentant slob Oscar (Walter Matthau) and cleaning-obsessive neurotic Felix (Jack Lemmon) make a perfect match as two old pals driven by marriage troubles to sharing a Manhattan apartment. Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson and Ben Stiller play the siblings, who function in a typically Anderson world painted in hyper-stylised strokes and grubby pastel shades. Screenplay: 4.8 Stars***** Yes, there’s a little ‘Harold and Maude’ here, a little Hal Hartley there. We already have this email.

Jack Black is at his most endearing in this underdog story about a struggling musician who poses as a substituted teacher and ends up coaching a class if misfits to compete in a Battle of the Bands. Direction: 4.8 Stars The comic "Bluntman and Chronic" is based on real-life stoners Jay and Silent Bob, so when they get no profit from a big-screen adaptation, they set out to wreck the movie. The con itself – an elaborate plan to run with the takings of a show so dreadful it closes overnight – keeps things ticking along at a brisk pace, but it’s that Busby Berkeley ‘Springtime for Hitler’ scene that remains most vividly in the memory. Chaplin’s little tramp finds himself braving the Alaskan gold rush in this celebrated silent feature, whose surreal invention – watch him fend off starvation by chomping down his boots – has gone down in screen history. After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult. A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home. It’s watch-through-the-fingers stuff – amusing, yes, but also seriously uncomfortable. Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Direction: 4.9 Stars Chico’s on hand, too, with his unhinged cod-Italiano witterings, while Harpo’s energetic feats of slapstick repeatedly threaten to steal the show. All of which makes choosing the 100 best comedies of all time a little tricky. After fertility problems they decide to kidnap a just-born quintuplet. Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis star as Jerry and Joe, two musicians who are forced to flee Chicago after witnessing the 1929 Valentine’s Day Massacre and disguise themselves as female members of a band travelling to Florida. Actors: 4.7 Stars

Where would screen comedy be without ‘His Girl Friday’? See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc Take Sean Connery’s suave James Bond out of his ’60s-martini-bar comfort zone and you’re left with Austin Powers. Screenplay: 4.8 Stars***** Actors: 4.6 Stars Direction: 5 Stars When eccentric man-child Pee-wee Herman gets his beloved bike stolen in broad daylight, he sets out across the U.S. on the adventure of his life. Two slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show.

In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious "Axe Gang" while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf. Direction: 4.9 Stars The Shawshank Redemption (1994) R | 142 min | Drama . In other words, a film's commercial success (Oscars & BAFTA Awards), and greatness in direction, screenwriting and production, is how I ranked the films on this list. Time Out is a registered trademark of Time Out Digital Limited.Thanks for subscribing! The truth is, a bit of both. Their behaviour could easily come off as mean, but by the end of the film they’ve conned you into thinking they’re loveable rogues. To help us with the task, we enlisted the help of comedians (such as Russell Howard and Diane Morgan), actors (John Boyega and Jodie Whittaker, among others), directors and screenwriters (including Richard Curtis), as well as several Time Out writers. Mostly, though, it works because the relationships between the women feel real and honest. Is this a case of two white comedians exploiting the heroes of soul music to make themselves look cool? The image of Aykroyd, drunk and suicidal in a Santa suit on Christmas Eve, says more about the realities (and brutalities) of Wall Street than a hundred financial-crash docs – and means that when he and his erstwhile rival pull together for the big climactic switcheroo, you’re firmly in their corner. After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. But this smart, structured, cine-literate film served notice that ‘the wild and crazy guy’ was more than just a non sequitur in a white suit with an arrow through his head.

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