Metacritic reviews

A real gem: a deadpan fantasy that turns into one of the best pictures ever about the post-"Star Wars" studio moviemaking era.

The season's brightest piece of counterprogramming.

A delectable comic performance by Sharon Stone.

Clever, often hilarious, inside-Hollywood farce that makes the most of... a delightfully absurd premise.

It's so clean a film, you could bring your grandmother.

No second or third act... a one-joke premise and a hundred punchlines.

Enough well-conceived jokes that the whole thing works very nicely.

A toothless series of vignettes rather than an insider satire on par with, say, "Bowfinger."

If only the whole thing were as funny as an Albert Brooks movie.

As The Muse chugs along, it becomes more apparent how tired and pointless it is.