Clooney zips through a very funny first act, before becoming a little bogged down as the action enters John le Carré territory.
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02/18/03
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
Top CriticBounces around like the smarter and weirder older brother of Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can.
10/19/03
Top CriticConfessions 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 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
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 CriticThe 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.
03/19/03
Darkly funny, surprising and very enjoyable, there’s enough here to suggest that Clooney should direct again.
03/12/03
Kaufman, Clooney, and company have interpreted Barris's story beautifully, but it was a flawed story to begin with.
01/27/03
While somewhat less than it might have been, the film is a good one, and you’ve got to hand it to director George Clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out.
01/10/03
Clooney's direction sets a unique tone that lets us laugh at, hope for and pity Barris as we tag along for a herky-jerky ride through his memories.
01/24/03
...sort of a red velvet twin to Steven Spielberg’s pastel Catch Me If You Can
01/17/03
Rockwell is wonderful throughout, capturing Barris' inherent sleaziness and insecurity as well as, well, the vision of the man who could be called the godfather of reality TV.
01/23/03
Confessions is without a doubt a memorable directorial debut from King Hunk.
01/26/03
Directing a movie is no picnic, but I'll be damned if Mr. Clooney doesn't make it seem like fun.
07/14/07
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is freakin' brilliant. Sam Rockwell gives a whack-you-upside-the-head dose of his talent!
09/22/03
Rockwell lets us see all the joy, lust, self-pity, and rage with which Barris gonged himself.
01/24/03
In his promising directorial debut, Clooney gets away with most of the flourishes he allows himself.
01/25/03
One of the year's most weirdly engaging and unpredictable character pieces.
01/05/03
Not only intriguing as a story but great to look at, a marriage of bright pop images from the 1960s and 1970s and dark, cold spyscapes that seem to have wandered in from John le Carre.
01/24/03
Top CriticThe movie is compulsively watchable even if it never quite convinces you that it's much more than a fanciful story.
01/23/03
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