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100Less a biography than an essay on theatrical illusion and the changing nature of comedy. Love it or hate it, you've never seen anything quite like it.
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100Less a conventional biography than a performance film - one that stuns and delights.
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100Actually moves, whisking the audience on a funny, sad and extraordinary journey through a singularly compelling moment in American pop culture.
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100Jim Carrey's performance is an impersonation on the level of genius.
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88What is most wonderful about Man on the Moon, a very good film, is that it remains true to Kaufman's stubborn vision.
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80This Andy has "Oscar" written all over it.
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80Just gives us Andy, the pop postmodernist, and permits us to make what we will of him, which is a fascinating activity.
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75Carrey's amazing transformation in Man on the Moon does justice to Kaufman's undefinable talents and his peculiar outlook on entertainment.
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75Carrey gives an otherworldly, possessed performance as Kaufman.
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75A fascinating, sometimes profound curiosity.
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75A movie of moments whose ultimate legacy may be to get Carrey out of formula comedies forever.
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75It offers no special insights into its subject, it doesn't connect on any higher level, and it left me feeling vaguely dissatisfied and let down.
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67Strictly texture, a romp over the surfaces of Andy Kaufman's life with not much insight into its core.
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63Unsuccessfully attempts to fathom Kaufman's lunatic sensibilities, supplying scant psychological insight into what made the outrageous comic tick.
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63It's not that the movie is bad; it's merely uninspired and relatively clueless about Kaufman.
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63Remains a frustratingly opaque study. There's something missing, namely Kaufman.
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60The sort of sick humor even Andy Kaufman would have recognized as well beyond the pale.
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60You won't forget the way Carrey transcends mere impersonation to find the roots of Andy's torment.
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60Jim Carrey is magnificent as Kaufman.
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What is missing here, though it might have been the first thing expected from an ostensible film biography, is an answer to the simplest question: Who was Andy Kaufman, and how did he get that way?
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60Forman's decision to stick to the surface is probably, in the end, a wise one. Kaufman always wanted to keep us guessing, and this movie respects his wishes.
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60Though it suggests intriguing ideas about the nature of performance, humor, ambition, and the consumption of spectacle, the movie only superficially explores them.
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50Though Man on the Moon is lost when it comes to Kaufman's inner life and motivations, it offers a detailed account of his career.
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50Milos Forman's film is a series of incredible simulations that never quite cohere into a movie.
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50If this movie is a pedestal, it is far too tall and wide for a performer of Kaufman's stature.
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50Carrey's performance, and Forman's lively attempts to ask serious questions about the nature of comedy, keep it interesting. Certainly it's never dull.
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50Unfortunately for Man on the Moon, Kaufman is definitely a person more interesting to hear about than to experience, an acquired taste few will be tempted to acquire.
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50All credit to Carrey, whose one-man performance is almost enough to redeem the movie.
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40It would seem the purpose of this movie, if not to deify, is to define -- and in this it fails miserably.
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40Too conventional to capture Kaufman's insanity and too haphazard, too shapeless, to recapture Kaufman's energy in any meaningful way.
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40The filmmakers don't even attempt to give Kaufman an inner life.
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40Regretfully, the beginning of this movie is as good as it ever gets.
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40I bet that what Carrey saw from inside Kaufman's head would be more illuminating than anything in the movie.
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30Never comes close to making the case that its subject is worthy of the viewer's interest.
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