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Albert Brooks

American actor and comedian

4.20body-of-work score · ranked #263 of 2631 directors · 6 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
July 22, 1947 · Beverly Hills
Nationality
United States
Work
actor, film director, screenwriter, voice actor
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Albert Brooks
Melissa cybermelli@aol.com from New York, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    Lost in America

    1985 · United States · comedy

    Kehr's annual top 10 1985 #2 · Sarris's annual top 10 1985 #2 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies

    1.377 citations
  2. 2
    Mother

    1996 · United States · comedy, drama

    Sarris's annual top 10 1996 #1 · Kehr's annual top 10 1996 #2 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies

    1.295 citations
  3. 3
    Modern Romance

    1981 · United States · comedy

    Sarris's annual top 10 1981 #4 · Kehr's annual top 10 1981 #8 · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

    0.604 citations
  4. 4
    Defending Your Life

    1991 · United States · comedy, romance, fantasy

    Kehr's annual top 10 1991 #3 · Criterion Collection spine #1071 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.523 citations
  5. 5
    Real Life

    1979 · United States

    Criterion Collection spine #1231 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.272 citations
  6. 6
    Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

    2005 · United States · comedy

    Kehr's annual top 10 2006 #null

    0.141 citation

Complete filmography

All 7 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.