The Nice Guys ticks all the boxes as our merrymaking duo provides continuous laughs throughout this outrageous story.

Jackson Healy (Crowe) and Holland March (Gosling) are the bully and the hoodwinking idiot, respectively. March hired to find Amelia (Margaret Qualley) and Healy hired to ensure she isn’t found. A hilarious first encounter precludes a partnership in an investigation that plumes out of control.

Ryan Gosling is must-see as a comedy lead, delivering perfectly timed wit (or dimwit) and self-serving reason for the entire film. Heck, March’s anti-ventriloquism take is the funniest moment in the movies this year. This I know. But I did not know Russell Crowe could complement “funny” so well. After all, this is General Maximus muckraking through the 1970s L.A. porn scene with a doofus sidekick. It is too good.

But these epic performances are marginally overshadowed by the brainy, confident and droll Holly March (Angourie Rice). As the 13 year-old daughter of Holland, she is especially intuitive and counteracts her bumbling screen-mates with logic and frowning disapproval.

We award an unprecedented 4.99 napkins out of 5 to The Nice Guys which vaults this film, butterfly collars and double knit fancies high into the Film Clas elite.

Civil War is a brew of way too many superheroes (and punches) for any one film. Yet, from this composite, a precipitate story of loyalty and self-actualization, painted with warranted revenge, emerges. And the best thing is, whenever Tony Stark (Downey Jr.) tries to overwhelm the film, we are quickly reminded that Steve Rogers (Evans) is our main character.

Rogers riffs with his heroic pals because he won’t give in to government oversight. There is the story. There is the divide rooted in the film’s title. However, the seeds for this divide are purposely planted by Baron Zemo, played by the fantastic Daniel Bruhl, who lost his family due to consequences stemming from The Avengers disregard.

I appreciated Zemo as a clever man of sinister tendencies rather than a cloaked villain. He plucks at Rogers by manipulating Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) into incriminating scenarios knowing that loyalty to his friend would outshine allegiance to his peers.

These films are annoyingly inconclusive as each one serves as the basis for another film and countless spinoffs. However, The Captain America thread is legit, fighting for justice with a shield and 3.9 starred napkins out of 5.

Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are the comedic cat’s pajamas du jour. To no surprise, they have painted a feature film from their many hilarious comedy sketches. Yes, it is ridiculous. But what film isn’t in some form or another?

The beauty of the movie lies in the cuteness of this kitten. It captures the hearts of all who it encounters. Gangsters, assassins, drug dealers and two ordinary cousins fall prey to this undeniable adorability. Said cousins, Clarence and Rell (Key and Peele, respectively), could not be more ill-prepared for the ensuing tomfoolery. Adopting the aliases of Shark Tank and Tectonic as well as stereotypical “street speak”, they involuntarily go undercover to retrieve Keanu while delivering unprecedented timing and envelope-pushing comedy.

From Clarence’ infatuation with George Michael and his background in team building to Rell’s recent heartbreak and propensity for weed and the interaction of these two, this movie is entertaining from Keanu’s first gunfight-escaping gallop.

This is the movie you would hope these two geniuses would create. Only the obligatory Danny Trejo cameo could have made this film better as Keanu naps on and scratches it’s way through 4.1 napkins out of 5.