The Muse: Critic Reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

34

An embarrassment.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Susan Wloszczyna USA Today (Top Critic)

There are lots of punchy lines, but the one-joke movie doesn't have all that much to say.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

100

The list of great moments is virtually endless!
Full Review » 12 years ago
J. Hoberman Village Voice (Top Critic)

The Muse is as consistently funny as it is smartly tooled.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Philip Wuntch Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

Quietly, consistently amusing.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

75

Smart, funny -- and edgy.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

88

A knockout satire!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)

75

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 » 12 years ago
Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)

Typically fresh and idiosyncratic in the writing but often flat directorially.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Rod Dreher New York Post (Top Critic)

63

It's good for some sterling one-liners and a generous handful of sparkling scenes, but after a strong, peppery start, the movie collapses into bland mush for want of anything interesting to say.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Peter Brunette Film.com (Top Critic)

It's imaginative enough to provide a reliable, pleasurable stream of chuckles and midsized laughs.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Ernest Hardy Film.com (Top Critic)

What's most surprising about The Muse is how derivative, cliche-ridden and old-hat it is.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Stephanie Zacharek Salon.com (Top Critic)

More stupefying than entertaining.
Full Review » 12 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

63

The screenplay, despite containing a number of droll one-liners and a pair of deliciously funny scenes, possesses a turgid, directionless feel.
Full Review » 12 years ago
David Hunter Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

The central conflicts are either creepingly unengaging, unpalatable or so muted as to be nonexistent.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

80

Albert Brooks pulls off a deft satire of Hollywood that benefits greatly from the clever casting of Sharon Stone.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Nell Minow Common Sense Media

60

Satire, Hollywood in-jokes won't appeal to kids.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Betty Jo Tucker ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Like the character he plays here, Albert Brooks needed someone or something to re-inspire him while working on this plodding comedy.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

50

Albert Brooks' mildly amusing satire about the inner workings of Hollywood benefits from Sharon Stone's droll and sexy performance, but as a comedy it's too familiar and not funny enough.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Rob Gonsalves eFilmCritic.com

80

Brooks' gentle satire of Hollywood.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Chuck Rudolph Matinee Magazine

0

In its story of a terrible filmmaker, it almost manages to explain the madness behind why Brooks still gets to crank out excrement like this.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality and Practice

Squeezes out plenty of laughs at the expense of the Hollywood film community.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Edward Johnson-Ott NUVO Newsweekly

50

The Muse is amusing, pleasant and generally enjoyable, which would be enough for most filmmakers, but from someone of Albert Brooks' caliber, we have a right to expect more.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Dennis Schwartz Ozus' World Movie Reviews

17

I thought Brooks mailed this script in.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Steve Rhodes Internet Reviews

63

A writer and comic who's the best when he's the nastiest, Brooks creates for himself a character that's way too accommodating and sweet.
Full Review » 12 years ago