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It feels like a lifetime since Hollywood last got a blissfully stupid adult comedy. "The Naked Gun" couldn't have landed on Prime Video at a more perfect time, a true comedy gem to end the year on a high note after the streaming service's slate of forgettable, half-baked action-comedies in 2025.
Akiva Schaffer's 2025 legacy sequel, "The Naked Gun," is a riot from start to finish. As a fan of the original, I wasn't entirely convinced that Liam Neeson could fill Leslie Nielsen's shoes, but all the laugh-out-loud antics on screen had me nearly in tears. By the looks of things, plenty of people needed a little levity too, because the movie instantly shot to the #1 spot over the weekend (Prime Video's answer to Netflix's "All Quiet on the Western Front," "The Tank," has since bumped it down to #2).
'The Ballad of Wallace Island' (2025)
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The word "heartwarming" gets thrown around a lot these days, but “The Ballad of Wallis Island” really is just the kind of watch that melts the curmudgeonly frost of the world away. This tender comedy-drama earned an impressive 96% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes, and TG's own Rory Mellon called it "the most charming movie of 2025."
Charles (Tim Key) is a lottery winner living on the remote Wallis Island who just so happens to be the world's biggest super fan of a long-defunct folk music band, McGwyer Mortimer. Instead of using his winnings on a flashy car or McMansion, he uses it to convince the two members (Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan) to play a show at his isolated island home. However, as they get jamming, old tensions rise to the surface. Key especially deserves his flowers for one of his most unexpectedly hilarious roles to date.
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'The Phoenician Scheme' (2025)
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Once you've seen one Wes Anderson movie, you pretty much know what your in for: wacky plot lines, deadpan humor, and Michael Cera vibes (though, fun fact, this is his first collab with Anderson). He joins a star-studded ensemble for the legendary director's latest comedy, including Riz Ahmed, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, and Benedict Cumberbatch.
Set in 1950s-era Europe, “The Phoenician Scheme” follows ruthless tycoon Anatole “Zsa-zsa” Korda (Benicio del Toro) who's fed up with all these assassination attempts ruining his day-to-day. After yet another near-fatal encounter, he summons his only daughter, Liesl Korda (Mia Threapleton), a nun about to take her final vows, and names her the sole heir to his sprawling business empire. With Liesl and her scholarly tutor Björn Lund (Michael Cera) in tow, Korda sets out to launch his grand infrastructure project to reshape a desert land and leave his mark on the world.
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'My Old Ass' (2024)
Though the name makes it a tough sell, "My Old Ass" is an absolute treat to watch. This teen coming-of-age comedy-drama centers on 18-year-old Elliot (played by Maisy Stella in her feature film debut), who's spending the final few weeks of her pre-university summer vacation working at her family's cranberry farm. When she skips a family dinner to take mushrooms with her BFFs Ro (Kerrice Brooks) and Ruthie (Maddie Ziegler), she comes face-to-face with her almost 40-year-old self (Aubrey Plaza).
Elliott's "old ass," as you will, gives her younger self advice about how to move through her future, warning her not to be so eager to leave her hometown. She also tells her to steer clear of an intriguing neighbor Chad (Percy Hynes White), which goes about as well as you'd expect. What follows is a veritable hallmark of the genre: a transformative summer for all versions of Elliott involved.
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'Burn After Reading' (2008)
Like "Idiocracy," "Burn After Reading" has only gotten more relevant over the years. This searing black comedy from Joel and Ethan Coen ("The Big Lebowski," "Fargo") puts the blundering American government on blast. When CIA analyst Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich) quits his job after his drinking problem earns him a demotion, it kicks off a domino effect of absurdity that involves blackmail, an inside-industry affair gone wrong, and the most baffling U.S. intelligence leak imaginable.
The trail of clues leads back to two gym employees with nary a brain cell to share between them: Brad Pitt as hyperactive jock Chad Feldheimer and Frances McDormand as cosmetic-surgery-obsessed Linda Litzke. "Burn After Reading's" star-studded cast also features Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, and George Clooney in a deliriously demented role that I seem to purge from my brain on each re-watch because that scene (you know the one) always manages to be a jump scare that leaves me wheezing.
Watch "Burn After Reading" on Prime Video now
'Heathers' (1989)
Before "Mean Girls" and "Clueless," 1989's "Heathers" capped a decade of iconic feel-good teen movies with a searing satire that remains ridiculously quotable to this day (“Fuck me gently with a chainsaw!”). The original mean girl blueprint Heather Chandler (Kim Walter) runs the school along with her domineering clique of girls named Heather.
New to their ranks is Veronica Sawyer (Winona Ryder), who accidentally ends up killing the queen bee with the help of bad-boy new kid J.D. (Christian Slater). They scramble to cover up their crime by framing it as a suicide, and unwittingly make Heather more popular than ever. But nature abhors a power vacuum, and Veronica soon learns she's created an even more dangerous monster.
Watch "Heathers" on Prime Video now
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