Albert Brooks and Holly Hunter perform with such vitality, such comic neuroticism, that they at least blur the edges of their stereotypes.

| Jan 28, 2020

As the talented but professionally thwarted news writer, Brooks is sensational, both vain and vulnerable.

| Dec 18, 2018

Jane Craig is a feminist heroine in a way that few female romantic-comedy protagonists since have been, even the ones we consider strong and independent.

| Dec 19, 2017

James Brooks is too gifted a writer for that simple a story.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 23, 2017

All the performers are tops.

| Feb 2, 2009

Enormously entertaining.

| Apr 1, 2008

In a film tracing the endless battles between style and substance, Brooks delivers both in abundance.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 1, 2008

One of the best entertainments of 1987.

| Apr 1, 2008

Underpinning what is a charming, protean love-triangle is a serious statement about the function, value, and direction of television news.

| Feb 9, 2006

The movie is a sarcastic and carefully detailed picture of a world Mr. Brooks finds fascinating and also a little scary.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 20, 2003

The film is so ingratiatingly high-spirited, and the performances so full of sass and vigor, that in the long run it doesn't really matter much.

| Jan 1, 2000

Brooks' observations are as keen as Woody Allen's but without the neurotic narcissism.

| Jan 1, 2000

Broadcast News has a lot of interesting things to say about television. But the thing it does best is look into a certain kind of personality and a certain kind of relationship.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000