In 2016, Netflix put all of the movies Albert Brooks had written and directed onto their service. I still remember his introduction to younger viewers as “Marlin, the adorable clownfish from Finding Nemo.” I watched his filmography that grim summer, and today, Real Life, a commentary on reality tv before the term even existed, and Modern Romance are the ones I come back to most often.
For someone who’s standup embodied the hollow attitudes of entertainment, Brooks knows how to put that smarminess…
