Here are Cinephile Corner’s picks for the 10 best comedy movies of 2025, ranked:
10. The Naked Gun
The Naked Gun is the kind of spoof that lives or dies on joke density, and on that metric Akiva Schaffer mostly delivers. The film fires off multiple gags a minute, often piling one topper on another until you miss a punchline because you are still laughing at the last. Schaffer has done this before with Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping and Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers, and here he teams with writers Dan Gregor and Doug Mand, with Seth MacFarlane producing. You can feel that lineage in the barrage of cutaway bits and Family Guy style throwaway one liners. In pure joke-per-minute terms, the movie works.
9. One of Them Days
Keke Palmer is undeniably magnetic, and One of Them Days serves as another showcase for her effortless charm and comedic timing. Directed by Lawrence Lamont, the film largely exists to let Palmer shine, and she doesn’t disappoint, carrying the movie’s 97-minute runtime with infectious energy.
8. No Other Choice
No Other Choice finds Park Chan-wook in a sharper comedic register than usual, a black comedy that keeps tipping toward farce while tracking a middle class collapse. I like the switch of gears. I also felt the hype machine pull a little harder than the movie earns. It is lively, cleverly staged, and often very funny, yet it lands as a thoughtful middle entry for Park rather than a top tier picture beside The Handmaiden, Oldboy or Decision to Leave.
7. The Baltimorons
If studios want to keep funding mid budget, actor driven, Christmastime hangouts like this, starring working character actors instead of IP, I will happily line up every year. The Baltimorons may not be The Holdovers, but it is good company and a cozy watch, and it makes Baltimore in winter feel like exactly where you want to be for 100 minutes.
6. Eephus
Eephus isn’t flashy, and it won’t be for everyone. Its drama is muted, its pacing deliberate. But for those tuned into its frequency, it’s a poignant, beautifully observed story about time, tradition, and the people we share it with. Whether you’re a baseball fan or not, the themes are universal.
5. Roofman
Roofman is the kind of “they don’t make them like this anymore” adult caper that suits Channing Tatum better than almost anything. He dials down the movie-star wattage and leans into hangdog charm as Jeffrey Manchester, a serial McDonald’s robber who perfects the art of dropping through rooftops, then graduates to a more audacious escape-and-hide scheme after he is finally caught. Derek Cianfrance treats the true story with a straight face and a curious heart, finding room for procedure, romance, and the melancholy of a guy who is always one step from being found out.
4. Friendship
Friendship is one of the more unique comedies of 2025 – a weird, squirm-inducing, unexpectedly affecting film that feels true to its title in all the worst (and best) ways. It’s another feather in A24’s cap for championing daring, off-kilter voices in comedy. If you’re in tune with Tim Robinson’s specific wavelength, it’s a must-watch.
3. Marty Supreme
Marty Supreme is Josh Safdie working at his widest canvas, a 1950s period piece about a showman who can sell anything until he sells himself short. Marty Mauser, played by Timothée Chalamet, is a ping pong phenom, a sneaker salesman for his uncle, a serial charmer who glides from city to city on other people’s dimes. The world fits neatly in his palm until it does not. Safdie’s favorite subject has always been appetite colliding with reality, and this time the arc is bookended by matches that frame a life lived at match point.
2. Eddington
Ari Aster’s Eddington is a jagged political mirror – scattershot with ideas, audacious in tone – and somehow plays like a slow-burn powder-keg farce that detonates exactly when it means to. Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival to chilly early notices, the film was quickly read as opportunistic, a movie “profiting” off COVID lockdowns and the George Floyd protests rather than meaningfully engaging with them. But taken on its own terms, Eddington is a bracingly self-reflective work: an American fever dream about paranoia, doomscrolling, and the grifters who materialize when anxiety becomes a commodity.
1. The Phoenician Scheme
The Phoenician Scheme finds Wes Anderson at perhaps his most emotionally direct since The Grand Budapest Hotel, yet without sacrificing the signature aesthetic and structural quirks that define his work. Where recent efforts like Asteroid City and The French Dispatch relied heavily on narrative framing devices, nested storytelling, and dense, text-heavy scripts, The Phoenician Scheme plays more like an emotional adventure story – a film that hits hardest on first viewing, even as it leaves behind layers to explore on rewatches.
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