For something titled The Comedy, this movie isn't funny. Or charming, likable, enjoyable, or any other adjectives you would find splashed on a poster.

While this could have been the perfect portrait of a certain kind of idiot, the baroque cruelties and tonal monotony go too far.

An essential portrait of a generation of people laughing so hard that they've forgotten the joke is on them.

Rick Alverson’s The Comedy takes this type of person, with all of their privilege, vapidity, evil and, yes, humanity to explode their universe onto the screen...