If you expect and want to see the hyper-wacky Carrey...you'll hate it. If you expect and don't want to see the creepy Carrey as in the The Cable Guy, you'll be happier.
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06/28/04
The Truman Show (1998)
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Reviews Counted:96
Fresh:91
Rotten:5
Average Rating:8.2/10
Consensus: A funny, tender, and thought-provoking film, The Truman Show is all the more noteworthy for its remarkably prescient vision of runaway celebrity culture and a nation with an insatiable thirst for the private details of ordinary lives.
Reviews for The Truman Show
Las secuencias de sincronía de eventos para que Truman crea todo son perfectas.
06/05/04
A little miracle of 1990s Hollywood that deserves more praise and more audience today than it had a few years ago.
04/12/04
Just a little too pleased with its own abrupt resolution to be completely satisfying.
09/25/03
although there are flashes of humor throughout, the film is more often funny-weird than it is uproarious.
07/02/03
Although it doesn't merit the superlatives being thrown at its feet, The Truman Show is a rewarding experience.
05/30/03
What this film proves is that it is still possible to make a completely original movie in modern Hollywood. Perhaps this brilliant fable will encourage others to try.
05/22/03
Unlike most summer releases and Jim Carrey movies, there's nothing dumb or dumber about director Peter Weir's astonishing social satire.
05/20/03
There aren't many original ideas coming out of Hollywood these days, but The Truman Show is one of them.
03/16/03
The Truman Show is not perfect, but it's interesting, and has its funny moments.
02/08/03
It is quite rewarding to see Weir's gifts as a craftsman attached to a script that mostly fulfills its own ideological ambitions.
01/10/03
Funny, moving, imaginative and wickedly smart about the addictive power of comfy illusion.
10/15/02
The film is very funny, but also touching and thought provoking.
09/10/02
The result is a rarity on any screen: intelligent fun.
07/12/02
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03/24/02
Top CriticTailor-made for our era of celebrity spectacles, theme parks, and the incursion of pop culture into all aspects of our lives.
03/02/02
This is an astonishingly rich and provocative movie that finds one of our few authentically visionary directors still testing himself and daring his audiences to keep up.
01/28/02
No review available.
10/30/01
Adventurous, provocative, even daring
02/14/01
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