Albert Brooks’s Typical Vibe
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Albert Brooks has 19 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Taxi Driver.
Recurring themes

Finding Nemo
2003 · Movie · Voice
Top 7%Disney+ · Included

Finding Dory
2016 · Movie · Voice
Top 13%Disney+ · Included

Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983 · Movie · Actor
Top 20%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Concussion
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 31%Netflix · Included

A Most Violent Year
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 58%Max · Included

The Simpsons Movie
2007 · Movie · Voice
Top 66%Disney+ · Included
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd

Based on the best-seller book 'The Little Prince', the movie tells the story of a little girl that lives with resignation in a world where efficiency and work are the only dogmas. Everything will change when accidentally she discovers her neighbor that will tell her about the story of the Little Prince that he once met.
Dir. Mark Osborne · With Riley Osborne, Mackenzie Foy, Jeff Bridges

Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio. When Irene's husband gets out of jail, he enlists Driver's help in a million-dollar heist. The job goes horribly wrong, and Driver must risk his life to protect Irene and Benicio from the vengeful masterminds behind the robbery.
Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn · With Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston

Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting vegetarian sharks, surfer dude turtles, hypnotic jellyfish, hungry seagulls, and more along the way.
Dir. Andrew Stanton · With Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould

Dory is reunited with her friends Nemo and Marlin in the search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale?
Dir. Andrew Stanton · With Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Ed O'Neill

An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"—and one original story, "Time Out."
Dir. John Landis, Joe Dante, Steven Spielberg, George Miller · With Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Scatman Crothers

Is there love after death? After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where the newly deceased must prove they lived a life of sufficient courage to advance in their journey through the universe. As the self-doubting Daniel struggles to make his case, a budding relationship with the uninhibited Julia offers him a chance to finally feel alive.
Dir. Albert Brooks · With Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn

David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling around America...in a Winnebago.
Dir. Albert Brooks · With Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty, Michael Greene

A high-strung news producer finds herself in a love triangle between a talented but self-doubting reporter and a charming news anchor who embodies the growing trivialization of news that she is determined to fight against.
Dir. James L. Brooks · With Holly Hunter, William Hurt, Albert Brooks

A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful institutions in the world.
Dir. Peter Landesman · With Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, Albert Brooks

Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the right moves … and all the wrong guys. Now they're willing to risk it all to find out if there's more between them than just the law.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames

A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
Dir. J.C. Chandor · With Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo

After Homer accidentally pollutes the town's water supply, Springfield is encased in a gigantic dome by the EPA and the Simpsons are declared fugitives.
Dir. David Silverman · With Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright

A sheltered young high society woman joins the US Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.
Dir. Howard Zieff · With Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante
An idealistic young politician juggles familial issues and a challenging work life while preparing to take over the job of her mentor, the state’s longtime incumbent governor.
Dir. James L. Brooks · With Emma Mackey, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Lowden

Right before his daughter's wedding, a mild-mannered foot doctor discovers that his new in-laws are international smugglers.
Dir. Andrew Fleming · With Michael Douglas, Albert Brooks, Ryan Reynolds
When his star recruit botches a Major League Baseball debut, humiliated talent scout Al Percolo gets banished to rural Mexico, where he finds a potential gold mine in the arm of young phenom Steve Nebraska. Soon, the New York Yankees put a $55 million contract on the table—provided a psychiatrist can affirm Nebraska's mental stability.
Dir. Michael Ritchie · With Albert Brooks, Brendan Fraser, Dianne Wiest

With his career on the skids, a Hollywood screenwriter enlists the aid of a modern-day muse, who proves to test his patience.
Dir. Albert Brooks · With Albert Brooks, Sharon Stone, Andie MacDowell

The quiet life of a terrier named Max is upended when his owner takes in Duke, a stray whom Max instantly dislikes.
Dir. Chris Renaud · With Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart
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