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56 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 29 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 29
  3. Negative: 3 out of 29
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  1. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    100
    The list of great moments is virtually endless.
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    88
    A real gem: a deadpan fantasy that turns into one of the best pictures ever about the post-"Star Wars" studio moviemaking era.
  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    88
    The season's brightest piece of counterprogramming.
  4. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    80
    The sharpest inside Hollywood comedy in quite a while.
  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Elvis Mitchell
    80
    A delectable comic performance by Sharon Stone.
  6. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    Good but not great Brooks... but smart, funny -- and edgy.
  7. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    75
    It's so clean a film, you could bring your grandmother.
  8. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Steven Rea
    75
    Laceratingly funny Hollywood comedy.
  9. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    75
    Clever, often hilarious, inside-Hollywood farce that makes the most of... a delightfully absurd premise.
  10. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    67
    One of the more intelligent comedies out there this summer -- it's not Brooks' best.
  11. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Shawn Levy
    67
    You're looking for the mammoth home run, and the film is merely a bloop single.
  12. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    63
    Brooks' least satisfying film in quite a while.
  13. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    63
    No second or third act... a one-joke premise and a hundred punchlines.
  14. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Rod Dreher
    63
    Begins so briskly and promisingly to stumble aimlessly and flat-footedly to a surprise finale.
  15. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Susan Wloszczyna
    63
    It's a case of laughing at Brooks but not necessarily with him.
  16. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: J. Hoberman
    60
    As consistently funny as it is smartly tooled.
  17. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Robert Horton
    60
    Enough well-conceived jokes that the whole thing works very nicely.
  18. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Rene Rodriguez
    50
    A blatant sell-out, a wink-nudge pander to Hollywood, disguised as satire.
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  19. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Edward Guthmann
    50
    Largely and insider's joke.
  20. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Ann Hornaday
    50
    A toothless series of vignettes rather than an insider satire on par with, say, "Bowfinger."
  21. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    50
    Most of the time the movie limps amiably toward its feeble conclusion.
  22. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    50
    The execution of the script is perfect, as always, but it's the laziest script Brooks has ever directed.
  23. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    42
    An embarrassment--a fairy-tale showbiz satire that seems to defang itself, scene by scene.
  24. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    40
    Some good lines notwithstanding, this is a real disappointment.
  25. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    40
    Built on a slender, one-joke whimsy -- and a tough one to buy into, at that.
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  26. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Hal Hinson
    40
    The material turns out to be far soggier in the execution.
  27. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    30
    If only the whole thing were as funny as an Albert Brooks movie.
  28. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    30
    Derivative, cliché-ridden and old hat.
  29. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Stephanie Zacharek
    20
    As The Muse chugs along, it becomes more apparent how tired and pointless it is.
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