Unintentional Comedies of the 21st Century

Shame (Hard Drive scene)

Steve McQueen, 2011)

Perhaps it's cathartic relief, but I've often found overtly serious films offer unintentional comedy in one way or another. Critics praise them! Cinephiles adore them! Whereas I'm laughing like Leslie Nielsen after catching Platoon (1986).

Tommy Wiseau's The Room (2003) is a go to nominee according to the net, but I never even bothered with that. Therefore, here are a few that immediately come to mind which also span from this century; otherwise, I'll be here forever listing films from before then:

Baise-moi (Virginie Despentes & Coralie Trinh Thi, 2000)

The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, 2001)

8 Mile (Curtis Hanson, 2002)

The Wicker Man (Neil LaBute, 2006)

Never Let Me Go (Mark Romanek, 2010)

The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo (David Fincher, 2011)

Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011)

Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)

Nymphomaniac Vol. I &  II (Lars Von Trier, 2013)

Nocturnal Animals (Tom  Ford, 2016)

Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott, 2017)

The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro, 2017)

Roma (Alfonso Cuarón, 2018)

Lords of Chaos (Jonas Åkerlund, 2019)

Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell, 2020)

Karen (Coke Daniels, 2021)

The Scary of Sixty-First (Dasha Nekrasova, 2021)

We're only into the second quater of 2023 and we're spoilt for choice with the likes of The Whale and Babylon already. Going to be a bumper year by my reckoning.