The last decade has not been good for big-screen comedies. Hollywood studios nearly stopped making them. Horror became the in vogue genre. Laughs were out. Good comedies have kept being made, of course — it's just taken a little more effort to find them.
This month marks the 10th anniversary of “The Nice Guys,” Shane Black's 2016 crime caper with Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe. No, it's not exactly the 50th anniversary of “Jaws.” But for a movie era where comedies went out of style, it's a moment worth marking.
