"The Muse'' is an intelligent, undemanding comedy.

| Jun 12, 2018

Satire, Hollywood in-jokes won't appeal to kids.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2010

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 22, 2002

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 21, 2001

A dark and often unattractive movie.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

An embarrassment.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 1, 2000

There are lots of punchy lines, but the one-joke movie doesn't have all that much to say.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Typically fresh and idiosyncratic in the writing but often flat directorially.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

What's most surprising about The Muse is how derivative, cliche-ridden and old-hat it is.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

It's imaginative enough to provide a reliable, pleasurable stream of chuckles and midsized laughs.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

There are bits in this movie that are so bright, so amusing and so truly, madly, deeply tied to a life most of us will never know, that you can't help watching the film with fascination.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The list of great moments is virtually endless!

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The central conflicts are either creepingly unengaging, unpalatable or so muted as to be nonexistent.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Perversely amusing!

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A knockout satire!

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The Muse might have worked better if it didn't presume that we're all as interested in the machinations of Hollywood as Brooks is.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Albert Brooks pulls off a deft satire of Hollywood that benefits greatly from the clever casting of Sharon Stone.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The Muse is as consistently funny as it is smartly tooled.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000