Oscar

This is the one film that John Landis has made since The Blues Brothers that has felt in alignment with his anarchic beginning, and it’s a screwball comedy/gangster homage to the films of the 30s based on a French play and written by the same Saturday Night Live writers who wrote Coming to America. In its embrace of conventions first brought to the screen by people like Hawks, Lubitsch, and McCarey, Oscar is a delight of a film, a light entertainment that pushes forward at all times in a sma...