"Ella McCay" is fun and will have you feeling nostalgic. It's worth watching, despite its notable flaws and poor critical reception.

Its optimism is so refreshing, its dialogue so smart, and its characters and performances so endearing, it well rewards a watch.

Celebrated filmmaker James L. Brooks should have put the pen down before writing this extraordinarily confused story.

Film fans like to lament, “they don’t make them like they used to,” specifically about the kinds of wry, life-affirming dramedies that director James L. Brooks perfected back in the 1980s and ‘90s, like “Terms of Endearment,

There are many charming elements, including Jamie Lee Curtis, in the 85-year-old filmmaker's comeback but they don't add up to a convincing movie.

"Ella McCay" star Emma Mackey spoke with Variety about working with James L. Brooks in honoring the Golden Age of Hollywood, and working on "Narnia."

But this time the drama is on the other side of the media-government divide. The titular Ella (Emma Mackey) is a doe-eyed 34-year-old who has managed to become lieutenant governor of her unnamed state,

Writer-director James L. Brooks all but invented a warm, urbane way of telling complex women's stories, but his first movie in 15 years feels retrograde.

It’s hard to understand how “Ella McCay,” the first original feature from writer-director Brooks in 15 years, goes so utterly haywire.

Filmed across Rhode Island, ‘Ella McCay’ blends politics and family drama; early screening thrills local crew.

She can turn the world on with her smile and goes where everybody knows her name. The sitcom references fit the stagnant structure of the new James L. Brook film “Ella McCay” as it feels more like a 20th century television offering more than a take on a modern woman in