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

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

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

An amusingly bumpy ride.

| Original Score: B | May 4, 2005

Lost in America is being called a yuppie comedy, but it's really about the much more universal subjects of greed, hedonism and panic. What makes it so funny is how much we can identify with it.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 23, 2004