The movie feels like it's going to be great, and it carries on feeling that way for a long time, but takeoff just never happens.
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03/19/03
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
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Reviews Counted:158
Fresh:124
Rotten:34
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: Rockwell is spot-on as Barris, and Clooney directs with entertaining style and flair.
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: George Clooney makes his directorial debut with this frenetic, visually dazzling black comedy. Based on notorious television producer Chuck Barris' "unauthorized autobiography," Clooney's film... [More]
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Julia Roberts, Sam Rockwell, George Clooney
Director: George Clooney, Steven Soderbergh
Reviews for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Brimming with slightly self-conscious directorial panache, the movie zips between nearly three decades, fantasy and reality without ever really deciding how seriously it wants to take itself.
06/24/06
Top CriticDarkly funny, surprising and very enjoyable, there’s enough here to suggest that Clooney should direct again.
03/12/03
Clooney zips through a very funny first act, before becoming a little bogged down as the action enters John le Carré territory.
02/18/03
Top CriticThis astonishingly stylish film also marks Clooney's debut as a director. And it shows such promise that it'll leave you looking forward to whatever he decides to do next, even though he'll have a hard time topping this quirky gem.
01/16/03
Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind may not be in the Citizen Kane class, but George Clooney's first foray behind the camera does boast similarly bravura technique and an infectious sense of joy in the filmmaking process.
04/23/03
Top CriticBounces around like the smarter and weirder older brother of Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can.
10/19/03
Top CriticBecause of movies like this, nostalgia just ain't what it used to be.
08/11/03
The overload of murders and double-crosses make Barris’s life seem more and more like the folly of a screenwriter’s imagination.
12/27/02
The ingredients were there for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind to become a cult classic, but the resulting film is a tedious Hollywood yawner.
01/07/03
The ingredients were there for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind to become a cult classic, but the resulting film is a tedious Hollywood yawner.
12/06/05
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind works best as a rollicking trip through the pop culture of the '60s and '70s.
01/17/03
The story winks at show-biz insider parody -- you might end up yearning for more quality time with Bob Eubanks.
01/24/03
...should've been a lot better.
12/23/02
Celebrity and pop culture are areas on which Clooney is well-equipped to comment, but the other aspect of Barris' life -- clandestine meetings with shadowy figures who may simply be delusions -- leave him at a loss.
01/23/03
Throws out so much and so quickly that the hit-to-miss ratio is rather poor.
01/23/03
Neither revelatory nor truly edgy--merely crassly flamboyant and comedically labored.
12/30/02
In his directorial debut, George Clooney delivers a highly stylized biopic that showcases the confessions of an absurd mind rather than a dangerous one.
01/13/03
There's nothing terribly witty, clever, satirical, or irreverent about Charlie Kauffman's screenplay.
01/02/03
both overstuffed and undernourished... The film can't be called a solid success, although there's plenty of evidence here to indicate Clooney might have better luck next time.
01/23/03
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