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53 out of 100

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5.8 out of 10

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  • Starring: Albert Brooks, John Carroll Lynch
  • Summary: Albert Brooks provides an inspired and comedic view of America's approach to other cultures. (Warner Independent Pictures)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 19 out of 35
  3. Negative: 3 out of 35
  1. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    91
    Like "The Aristocrats," Looking succeeds smashingly both as a comedy and as a savvy deconstruction of comedy.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    60
    A reasonably amusing effort that manages to poke fun at Brooks' neuroses and governmental blundering with equal skill.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    38
    However deep the divide currently separating the Middle East from the West appears to be, there's at least one thing we can all agree on: Albert Brooks isn't all that funny anymore.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 3 out of 6
  1. TomM.
    9
    Brooks in vintage form pokes fun at himself and America's ignorance of foreign cultures.
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  2. BruceC.
    9
    "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World" is Albert Brooks as we haven't seen him since 1985's "Lost in America." This satire, in which Albert Brooks accepts a governmental commission to write a 500-page report on what tickles the Muslim funny bone, misses no opportunity to poke fun at America's cluelessness about other cultures. Like "Lost in America" and "Real Life," its humor comes from Brooks's characters' desperate attempts to salvage some dignity in the face of a grand idea gone terribly wrong. This time his satirical targets include the ironies of his own career: the burden of being better known for voicing a fish in a cgi cartoon than for all of his other work combined. It's a welcome return to form for one of our bravest satirists.… Expand
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  3. J.B.
    1
    Painful pacing and bad stand up made this unbearable to watch. The wife, child, assistant, and the two state dept employees are all over-simplified one dimensional characters. Brooks' clumsy attempts at 'research' are frustratingly inept, which made me mad for such a good premise to be wasted.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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