One lie, then another, then the whole building comes down.
routinely voted the funniest film ever made
Brooks' sharpest premise
the best of the high-concept 80s comedies
three endings, shipped to different theatres
Scorsese's one nightmare comedy
Hughes' best film
farce, precisely engineered
the *Pulp Fiction* structure, done young and fast
the discomfort comedy template
the highest-grossing R-rated comedy ever made
77 minutes of pure escalating anxiety
Lanthimos and Stone again
