Items31The creator’s order
  1. 1Home Alone (1990)Home Alone (1990) 7.8/10 on IMDbReleased Nov 16, 1990The decade's family comedy benchmark, and the one most households still put on every December. Macaulay Culkin's Kevin is a kid with a plan, and the last act turns the house into a slapstick obstacle course where Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern take punishment like silent-movie clowns. It works for a…0
  2. 2What About Bob? (1991)What About Bob? (1991) 7.0/10 on IMDbReleased May 17, 1991Bill Murray at his most cheerfully unbearable, as a patient so needy he follows his psychiatrist on vacation. The real engine is Richard Dreyfuss, whose slow collapse from smug professional to raving wreck gives the comedy a target. Pick this when you want a gentle, warm comedy with a nasty streak…0
  3. 3Wayne's World (1992)Wayne's World (1992) 7.0/10 on IMDbReleased Feb 14, 1992Mike Myers and Dana Carvey turned a Saturday Night Live sketch about two metalheads with a public-access show into the highest-grossing movie ever made from an SNL sketch. It still holds up because it is so cheerfully silly: fourth-wall breaks, fake endings and a cast that clearly enjoyed…0
  4. 4My Cousin Vinny (1992)My Cousin Vinny (1992) 7.6/10 on IMDbReleased Mar 13, 1992A fish-out-of-water courtroom comedy: a brash Brooklyn lawyer who has never tried a case defends two college kids on a murder charge in rural Alabama. Joe Pesci is loud and very funny, but Marisa Tomei steals the movie as Mona Lisa Vito and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for…0
  5. 5Groundhog Day (1993)Groundhog Day (1993) 8.0/10 on IMDbReleased Feb 11, 1993The comedy from this decade most likely to be called a perfect movie, and it earns it. Bill Murray's sour weatherman relives one February day in Punxsutawney until he gets it right, and Harold Ramis lets the premise run from prank comedy to despair to something close to grace without ever going…0
  6. 6Dazed and Confused (1993)Dazed and Confused (1993) 7.6/10 on IMDbReleased Sep 24, 1993A hangout comedy rather than a joke machine: one long last day of school in 1976 Texas, drifting between keg parties, hazing rituals and cars cruising with the windows down. Richard Linklater's ensemble includes early turns from Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck and Parker Posey. It made only about…0
  7. 7Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased Nov 24, 1993Robin Williams disguised as a Scottish nanny so he can see his own children after a divorce. The premise is broad, but the reason it lasts is Williams switching between voices at full speed and then dropping the act for scenes about a father who knows he messed up. It is a strong pick for a family…0
  8. 8Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) 6.9/10 on IMDbReleased Feb 4, 1994The movie that turned Jim Carrey from In Living Color sketch player into a movie star, and still the purest dose of his physical comedy: the hair, the walk, the talking backside. The plot, about a missing Miami Dolphins mascot, is just a frame for him. Know before you press play that the finale's…0
  9. 9Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased Mar 9, 1994The British romantic comedy that made Hugh Grant the decade's go-to stammering charmer. The structure is the hook: five social occasions, four weddings and one funeral, so the movie moves in brisk chapters full of best-man speeches and wrong seats at the reception. Come for the jokes, stay for the…0
  10. 10Clerks (1994)Clerks (1994) 7.7/10 on IMDbReleased Oct 19, 1994The scrappiest movie on the list and proof that talk can carry a comedy. Kevin Smith shot it in black and white for $27,575 in the New Jersey convenience and video stores where he really worked, and the whole thing is two bored clerks arguing about customers, relationships and the ethics of blowing…0