Yeah, I'll co-sign, The Favorite is high on Best Of list for the year. Hell, its not even a straight comedy and its still one of the funniest things I've seen this year by far. It may not be a quote-unquote 'comedy', it is however, richly entertaining, clever as hell, and the rare work of any media that can be accurately described as 'witty'. And like this year's earlier (and also superlative) The Death of Stalin, perhaps more than a little accurate as to how power shifts and is exercised in authoritarian regimes (IE, its dumb).
so The Favorite is plenty damn great, so of course I had to follow that with as much an opposite pick I could find. I didn't have warm memories exactly of Jason X, but I remembered liking it well enough back in its (DVD era) day. Seeing it again just a bit shocking, its friggin terrible. Everything looks just so shoddy, the cheapness of it all shines through. Maybe that's me seeing it in HD for the first time ever, or maybe that's just my rising standards over time. And yeah, its low hanging fruit to pick on a slasher movie for crappy production values and flat direction, but this film doesn't even have what should be a reliable strength of this sort of thing in having good kills. Its a drab, tedious Aliens ripoff, and for the first time in my life I didn't appreciate that at all. At least some of the practical effects have aged nicely.
Friday the 13th's 5-7 are my series best picks, if anybody was wondering.