Billed as a comedy, Brooks deceptively hides in Modern Romance a scathing indictment of toxic masculinity akin to Agnès Varda’s Le Bonheur and Michelangelo Antonioni’s La Notte.

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

...an uneven yet mostly rewarding comedy that stands as one of Brooks' better directorial efforts, ultimately.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 14, 2020

Likely to interest only those who wish Brooks well and don't mind making extravagant allowances.

| May 1, 2018

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2008

Ends up more insightful than funny.

| Original Score: B | Jan 8, 2007

In Albert Brooks' second comedy, which is both funny and irritating (some of it by design), he plays a nuerotic film editor who's unable to sustain a normal relationship

| Original Score: B- | Dec 27, 2006

Extremely funny, ultra-hip and alarmingly insightful.

| Jun 24, 2006

Nearly as much as Jerry Lewis, Albert Brooks's comic persona is defined by its unlikability.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 3, 2006

makes the repetition and relative tameness of the primary plot seem all the more obvious

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 10, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 14, 2004

Modern Romance explores the dangers of possessive love.

| Jan 31, 2004

Brooks can be very funny, but sometimes his whining mutes the laughs.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 5, 2003

Another obsessive classic from Albert Brooks

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 3, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 1, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2003

Brooks brings his inimitable brand of dry comedy to this look at the world f relationships.

| May 24, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 7, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 13, 2002

Not Brooks at his best, but still amusing

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 4, 2002

Yet another Albert Brooks film. Why?

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 26, 2002