Has some quality elements, including a standout sequence where Brooks performs a show in New Delhi that is completely tanking.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Mar 25, 2024

Albert Brooks chooses to create a patient, intelligent, and gentle comedy.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 14, 2020

Finally seeing this film so many years after I was told it was awful, I can't agree with the people who told me that. Perhaps I love Brooks' self-deprecating humor too much. Paul Chambers, CNN.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 12, 2010

If there were any justice, the garlands now given to Woody Allen for Match Point would be handed over to Brooks

| Aug 30, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2008

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2007

Brooks is going to India to shoot a movie (most of it filmed in New Delhi) about how to get laughs on foreign soil.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 24, 2006

Looking for Comedy succeeds smashingly both as a comedy and as a savvy deconstruction of comedy.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 27, 2006

In Albert Brooks's new film, we get another plausible explanation of why we fight -- and it may be the most unsettling of all.

Full Review | Nov 11, 2006

The movie has a perversely unifying effect: Muslims, Christians and Jews may not be able to agree on exactly who the heck Jesus is, but they're fully capable of bonding in boredom.

Full Review | Oct 7, 2006

Those who like their humor wry and dry will be rewarded by a nuanced study of the way self-absorption can keep people disconnected, be they comedians, governments, or you and me.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 27, 2006

Looking For Comedy in the Muslim World is full of Albert Brooks' trademark jokes and absurd scenarios.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 29, 2006

Despite the potential for disaster Brooks sets up with the title, the movie is relatively harmless. It's just so very harmless that it doesn't make much of an impression.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 29, 2006

Brooks é o tipo de comediante mais corajoso que existe: aquele que prefere ser considerado um fracasso pela maioria desde que, no processo, divirta alguns poucos que consigam compreender seu senso de humor sutil e auto-depreciativo.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 28, 2006

... likeable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2006

Uses Middle Eastern stereotypes only to question what could be accomplished by foolishly sending Americans into a world we don't comprehend.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 4, 2006

Whether it was supposed to or not, it still falls uncharacteristically flat.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 18, 2006

I think this thing is just flat and dead.

Full Review | Feb 11, 2006

An essentially toothless affair, poking fun at American imperialism and its attendant cluelessness while never illuminating much beyond the obvious.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 11, 2006

Albert Brooks is in general a funny guy. Many of his films are really good, especially when he doesn't play himself.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 11, 2006