It’s a little disturbing that Brooks’s Oscar-winning comedy should get what amounts to a home-video brush-off.
Part Coen brothers and part James L. Brooks, Alexander Payne makes comedies about serious stuff like abortion and midlife crises.
The film is a strange, well-intentioned mess that builds to an unusually effective ending.
Everything you could want to know about creating an ambitious, well-crafted rom-com in a mass-media whirlwind setting is supplied here.
James L. Brooks’s wit and his facility for creating credible heart-mind-libido conflicts have both steadily waned.
Picking the five best Simpsons episodes is well-nigh impossible.
It may not be the best…movie…ever, but it’s the best…Simpsons…movie…so far.
A piercing ego-autopsy disguised as vanilla ’80s comedy.
Nearly as much as Jerry Lewis, Albert Brooks’s comic persona is defined by its unlikability.
Oh, those wacky white folks!