These narcissistic yuppies thinking that they’re actually doing something bold is an amusing critique of the privileged upper class fetishization of the “freedom” of being broke.

| Original Score: 9.5/10 | Mar 25, 2024

The script is rarely funny and often far too talkative, and the small amount of action is flat-footed. Brooks and his co-star, Julie Hagerty, do not show enough sparkle in their acting to make up for these deficiencies.

| Apr 4, 2022

Lost in America is unquestionably Brooks' funniest, most cynical, yet most insightful film, and the height of his wincing scenarios about disenchanted creatives.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 14, 2022

There's a fantastic scene featuring a hilarious turn by director Garry Marshall.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 1, 2021

Cautions us to be careful what we wish for.

| Mar 29, 2021

...a solid piece of work...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 17, 2021

Brooks' Lost in America is a well-directed and effortlessly entertaining satire of the Reagan era.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 8, 2020

Even when sizable blunders burst into unimaginable proportions, it's difficult to be mad at these personas; they're funny when they bicker and charming when they reconnect.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 6, 2020

With co-writer Monica Johnson, his collaborator on Real Life and Modern Romance, Brooks has scripted the perfect outing for his gifts.

| Jan 30, 2019

Brooks, who wrote the script with Monica Johnson, is a highly original comedic spirit.

| Oct 22, 2018

Too often, things are simply too painfully accurate to be particularly funny. Still, it's hard to fault Brooks' resolutely adult intelligence, and Lost in America - almost in spite of itself, really - is easily his most consistently amusing work to date.

| Mar 19, 2018

Packed to the gills with Albert Brooks' signature dialog, and played to the hilt by both leads, Lost in America has a long set-up. But it's a testament to Brook's clever characterization.

| Aug 11, 2017

Brooks explodes the Kerouac fantasy by depicting two of the most uptight, urban people in the world trying to live it out.

| Aug 9, 2017

It's an endlessly funny and often uncomfortable piece of work, featuring some of the sharpest, deftest writing Brooks and frequent collaborator Monica Johnson ever crafted.

| Aug 6, 2017

Lost in America is one of the funniest films from one of our greatest cinematic comedians.

| Jun 27, 2017

Amusing satire on yuppies having a mid-life crisis.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 22, 2011

It is, I think, Brooks' masterpiece -- nothing inessential, one great scene after another, just flat-out perfect. Stanley Kubrick was an Albert Brooks fan for a reason.

| Original Score: A+ | May 8, 2009

A complete joy from start to finish! See it before you take to the wide-open road!

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 13, 2007

This sharply observed satire about disillusioned yuppies is Brooks' chef d'oeuvre and first commercial success, a film with an hero that's less obnoxious than the usual and a wonderful partner too, played by Julie Hagerty

| Original Score: A | Jan 24, 2007