Best Comedy Movies 2023

Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie was probably always going to be a hit, but few could have predicted exactly how big a hit it would be. Not only was it the highest-grossing film of the year, ultimately landing just outside the top 10 of all time, but it also became the highest-grossing film directed by a woman and the most successful in the history of Warner Bros. Now it can add a Best Comedy Golden Tomato Award to its growing list of accolades.

#1

Barbie (2023)
88%

#1

Adjusted Score: 117061%

Critics Consensus: Barbie is a visually dazzling comedy whose meta humor is smartly complemented by subversive storytelling.

Synopsis: To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on... [More]

Starring: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon

Directed By: Greta Gerwig

#2

The Holdovers (2023)
97%

#2

Adjusted Score: 117644%

Critics Consensus: Beautifully bittersweet, The Holdovers marks a satisfying return to form for director Alexander Payne.

Synopsis: From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, THE HOLDOVERS follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who... [More]

Starring: Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Carrie Preston

Directed By: Alexander Payne

#3

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023)
99%

#3

Adjusted Score: 111708%

Critics Consensus: Effervescent and refreshingly frank about the travails of puberty, this long-awaited adaptation does full justice to Judy Blume's seminal novel.

Synopsis: For over fifty years, Judy Blume's classic and groundbreaking novel Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. has impacted generations... [More]

Starring: Rachel McAdams, Abby Ryder Fortson, Elle Graham, Benny Safdie

Directed By: Kelly Fremon Craig

#4

Poor Things (2023)
93%

#4

Adjusted Score: 114666%

Critics Consensus: Wildly imaginative and exhilaratingly over the top, Poor Things is a bizarre, brilliant tour de force for director Yorgos Lanthimos and star Emma Stone.

Synopsis: From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a... [More]

Starring: Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo, Christopher Abbott

Directed By: Yorgos Lanthimos

#5

You Hurt My Feelings (2023)
94%

#5

Adjusted Score: 106107%

Critics Consensus: Smart, funny, and above all entertaining, You Hurt My Feelings finds writer-director Nicole Holofcener as sharply perceptive as ever.

Synopsis: From acclaimed filmmaker Nicole Holofcener comes a sharply observed comedy about a novelist whose long standing marriage is suddenly upended... [More]

Starring: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tobias Menzies, Michaela Watkins, Arian Moayed

Directed By: Nicole Holofcener

#6

May December (2023)
91%

#6

Adjusted Score: 109480%

Critics Consensus: Swaddling its difficult fact-based story in a blanket of campy humor, May December is a seductively discomfiting watch.

Synopsis: Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, Gracie Atherton-Yu and her husband Joe (twenty-three years her junior)... [More]

Starring: Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, Cory Michael Smith, Charles Melton

Directed By: Todd Haynes

#7

Dream Scenario (2023)
91%

#7

Adjusted Score: 104189%

Critics Consensus: Come to Dream Scenario for career-highlight work from Nicolas Cage -- and leave mulling over everything it has to say about pop culture's fickle whims.

Synopsis: Hapless family man Paul Matthews (Nicolas Cage) finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing... [More]

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Lily Bird, Julianne Nicholson, Jessica Clement

Directed By: Kristoffer Borgli

#8

Joy Ride (2023)
90%

#8

Adjusted Score: 101986%

Critics Consensus: Joy Ride isn't afraid to shock with its gross-out gags, but this road trip's real surprise is how successfully it blends its raunchy humor with real heart.

Synopsis: The hilarious and unapologetically explicit story of identity and self-discovery centers on four unlikely friends who embark on a once-in-a-lifetime... [More]

Starring: Stephanie Hsu, David Denman, Ashley Park, Annie Mumolo

Directed By: Adele Lim

#9

Bottoms (2023)
90%

#9

Adjusted Score: 102287%

Critics Consensus: Propulsive and over-the-top, Bottoms is an instant high school comedy classic that feels both current and nostalgic.

Synopsis: BOTTOMS, a refreshingly unique raunchy comedy, focuses on two girls, PJ and Josie, who start a fight club as a... [More]

Starring: Rachel Sennott, Ayo Edebiri, Havana Rose Liu, Kaia Gerber

Directed By: Emma Seligman

#10

American Fiction (2023)
93%

#10

Adjusted Score: 109195%

Critics Consensus: Jeffrey Wright and American Fiction will forever be inextricable thanks to the actor's committed approach to the pointedly humorous and insightful material.

Synopsis: AMERICAN FICTION is Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture's obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey... [More]

Starring: Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander

Directed By: Cord Jefferson