16th Annual Golden Tomato Award Winners for Best-Reviewed Comedy
4. Dear White People (2014) 92% (Adjusted Score: 95.03% )
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- A movie must have 40 or more rated reviews to be considered.
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Dear White People adds a welcome new voice to cinema’s oft-neglected discussion of race, tackling its timely themes with intelligence, honesty, and gratifyingly sharp wit.
- Director: Justin Simien
- Starring: Tyler James Williams, Tessa Thompson, Brandon Bell
- 5. Obvious Child (2014)
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90% (Adjusted Score: 94.92%)
- Each critic from our discrete list gets one vote, weighted equally.
- A movie must have 40 or more rated reviews to be considered.
- The ‘Adjusted Score’ comes from a weighted formula (Bayesian) that we use that accounts for variation in the number of reviews per movie.
Tackling a sensitive subject with maturity, honesty, and wit, Obvious Child serves as a deeply promising debut for writer-director Gillian Robespierre.
- Director: Gillian Robespierre
- Starring: Jenny Slate, Gaby Hoffmann, David Cross
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