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Muse, The
October Films / USA Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for brief nudity
Starring
Albert Brooks,
Sharon Stone,
Andie MacDowell,
Jeff Bridges,
and
Steven Wright
Stephen Phillips (Brooks) is a veteran screenwriter who has lost his edge. Fellow screenwriter with recent successes (Bridges) refers him to the mythical "Zeus's Daughter" Sarah (Stone), a professional muse whom he pays and showers with gifts for her to inspire his writing of can't-miss scripts.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Albert Brooks
Monica Mcgowan Johnson
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Albert Brooks
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 15, 2000
Video: February 15, 1999
Theatrical: August 27, 1999
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| RUNNING TIME: |
97 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
The list of great moments is virtually endless.
88
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A real gem: a deadpan fantasy that turns into one of the best pictures ever about the post-"Star Wars" studio moviemaking era.
88
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
The season's brightest piece of counterprogramming.
80
The New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
A delectable comic performance by Sharon Stone.
80
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
The sharpest inside Hollywood comedy in quite a while.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Good but not great Brooks... but smart, funny -- and edgy.
75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
It's so clean a film, you could bring your grandmother.
75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Clever, often hilarious, inside-Hollywood farce that makes the most of... a delightfully absurd premise.
75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Laceratingly funny Hollywood comedy.
67
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
You're looking for the mammoth home run, and the film is merely a bloop single.
67
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
One of the more intelligent comedies out there this summer -- it's not Brooks' best.
63
New York Post
Rod Dreher
Begins so briskly and promisingly to stumble aimlessly and flat-footedly to a surprise finale.
63
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
It's a case of laughing at Brooks but not necessarily with him.
63
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Brooks' least satisfying film in quite a while.
63
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
No second or third act... a one-joke premise and a hundred punchlines.
60
Film.com
Robert Horton
Enough well-conceived jokes that the whole thing works very nicely.
60
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
As consistently funny as it is smartly tooled.
50
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The execution of the script is perfect, as always, but it's the laziest script Brooks has ever directed.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Largely and insider's joke.
50
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Most of the time the movie limps amiably toward its feeble conclusion.
50
Baltimore Sun
Ann Hornaday
A toothless series of vignettes rather than an insider satire on par with, say, "Bowfinger."
50
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
A blatant sell-out, a wink-nudge pander to Hollywood, disguised as satire.
42
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
An embarrassment--a fairy-tale showbiz satire that seems to defang itself, scene by scene.
40
Dallas Observer
Hal Hinson
The material turns out to be far soggier in the execution.
40
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Built on a slender, one-joke whimsy -- and a tough one to buy into, at that.
40
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Some good lines notwithstanding, this is a real disappointment.
30
Film.com
Ernest Hardy
Derivative, cliché-ridden and old hat.
30
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
If only the whole thing were as funny as an Albert Brooks movie.
20
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
As The Muse chugs along, it becomes more apparent how tired and pointless it is.
 The average user rating for this movie is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
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