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Gallows Wit, Unraveling Men

A run of darkly funny character studies where a man decides he's done — with a friendship, a life, a self — and the jokes keep landing right up to the edge; watch them together for how each one lets despair and comedy share the same breath.

A mix of an awards-season crowd favourite and quieter indie and foreign kin, all accessible on their surface but emotionally heavier than the laughs suggest — reach for them when you can take a gut-punch with your comedy, not when you need cheering up.