| 100 |
Washington Post
The list of great moments is virtually endless.
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| 88 |
Chicago Tribune
A real gem: a deadpan fantasy that turns into one of the best pictures ever about the post-"Star Wars" studio moviemaking era.
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| 88 |
Boston Globe
The season's brightest piece of counterprogramming.
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| 80 |
The New York Times
A delectable comic performance by Sharon Stone.
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| 80 |
Los Angeles Times
The sharpest inside Hollywood comedy in quite a while.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Good but not great Brooks... but smart, funny -- and edgy.
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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
It's so clean a film, you could bring your grandmother.
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| 75 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Clever, often hilarious, inside-Hollywood farce that makes the most of... a delightfully absurd premise.
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| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Laceratingly funny Hollywood comedy.
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| 67 |
Portland Oregonian
You're looking for the mammoth home run, and the film is merely a bloop single.
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| 67 |
Austin Chronicle
One of the more intelligent comedies out there this summer -- it's not Brooks' best.
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| 63 |
New York Post
Rod Dreher
Begins so briskly and promisingly to stumble aimlessly and flat-footedly to a surprise finale.
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| 63 |
USA Today
It's a case of laughing at Brooks but not necessarily with him.
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| 63 |
Mr. Showbiz
Brooks' least satisfying film in quite a while.
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| 63 |
New York Daily News
No second or third act... a one-joke premise and a hundred punchlines.
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| 60 |
Film.com
Enough well-conceived jokes that the whole thing works very nicely.
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| 60 |
Village Voice
As consistently funny as it is smartly tooled.
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| 50 |
Chicago Reader
The execution of the script is perfect, as always, but it's the laziest script Brooks has ever directed.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Largely and insider's joke.
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| 50 |
Charlotte Observer
Most of the time the movie limps amiably toward its feeble conclusion.
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| 50 |
Baltimore Sun
A toothless series of vignettes rather than an insider satire on par with, say, "Bowfinger."
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
A blatant sell-out, a wink-nudge pander to Hollywood, disguised as satire.
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| 42 |
Entertainment Weekly
An embarrassment--a fairy-tale showbiz satire that seems to defang itself, scene by scene.
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| 40 |
Dallas Observer
Hal Hinson
The material turns out to be far soggier in the execution.
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| 40 |
Rolling Stone
Built on a slender, one-joke whimsy -- and a tough one to buy into, at that.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
Some good lines notwithstanding, this is a real disappointment.
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| 30 |
Film.com
Derivative, cliché-ridden and old hat.
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| 30 |
LA Weekly
If only the whole thing were as funny as an Albert Brooks movie.
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| 20 |
Salon.com
As The Muse chugs along, it becomes more apparent how tired and pointless it is.
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