A gemlike picture crafted with rare and immaculate precision...
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02/14/01
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
Top CriticThe biggest star here is director Weir in this bold and beautiful tour de force.
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Top CriticA crowd pleaser that caters to our horror of totalitarianism, our love of personal freedom, our belief - justified or deluded - that knowledge is a powerful tool and that access to information is a God-given right.
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This inspired movie is possibly the best - and most layered - summer picture in years.
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A thought-provoking, original movie that works on many levels.
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In real life, most of us agree the Truman Burbank reality would never be allowed. Yet we probably wouldn't deny that some day, the way things are going, a variation on it just might occur.
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Weir presents The Truman Show as a fairy tale, not an Orwellian nightmare
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The conception is so audacious and inventive that the movie winds up doing something genuinely radical: it bores through the boundaries of our entire media-saturated culture.
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As it stands, it's still good, but it just doesn't live up to its own hype.
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Witty and manipulative, the movie doesn't answer the questions it poses. But it does let you leave feeling all right...
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A deliciously vicious and intelligent satire. Jim Carrey is great as the man caught in the middle and Ed Harris is suitably evil as his tormentor.
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For the first time in years, we are confronted with a movie that is so original and so intriguing that you wonder why no one had thought it up before.
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The smartest, funniest, most original Hollywood movie in ages.
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I had that rare feeling of elation - of wanting to share a wonderful discovery - that comes with seeing an original, inspired piece of work.
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A whale of a good movie, a rich, entertaining, thoughtful work that is at once lyrical and ominous.
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Here is a provocative and profound film that deserves your undivided attention. Don't change the channel.
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A deliciously vicious and intelligent satire on the media who manipulate us, and the audience who encourages it.
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The kind of film that people want to see again and again, for many reasons.
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One of the choicest recent examples of imaginative fiction.
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Weir guides his diverse cast members to the most artful and effective performances of their lives.
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