Albert Brooks

Though some scary parts may make the very young fret unduly, the film also puts forward some thoughtful messages for both children and their parents.

Albert Brooks has always spun gold from self-absorption and gulfs of misunderstanding.

A good movie, but also one that betrays the strain of great expectations, a four-episode length, and a 400-episode back catalog.

By looking at the small-screen picture...[Brooks] provocatively suggests that America's socio-political problems are pretty much the same as the personal problems of its citizens.

A stylish genre exercise...one might just as well say the L.A. story unfolds at the corner of Michael Mann and David Lynch.

An unsettling examination of moral drift, over a year in the life of a man and a generation in the life of a country.

If the plotting at first feels overly familiar (and, in many ways, is), its elegance becomes apparent in the reinvigorating final movements, which also confirm Finding Dory's ultimate theme of building self-confidence through self-discovery.