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100I enjoyed The Truman Show on its levels of comedy and drama; I liked Truman in the same way I liked Forrest Gump--because he was a good man, honest, and easy to sympathize with.
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100Delicately subversive, hypnotically sardonic, full of terror, banality and wafer-thin lyricism.
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100Weir's offbeat directing makes the most of Andrew Niccol's inventive screenplay, which includes large doses of surprisingly sardonic satire aimed at today's entertainment trends.
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100A sunny-looking movie about the darkest paranoia.
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100An original, inspired piece of work.
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100A beautifully sinister and transfixing entertainment-age daydream.
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100A brilliant and daring film.
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100Adventurous, provocative, even daring.
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100A miraculous movie. It will rattle both your head and heart
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100A gemlike picture crafted with rare and immaculate precision.
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100That rare cinematic experience-a movie so close to pure perfection that it seems a shame to spoil it by even reading a review beforehand.
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100One of the smartest, most inventive movies in memory, it manages to be as endearing as it is provocative.
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100The Truman Show is a reminder of the Beckett theme. The screenplay by Andrew Niccol starts from something like Beckett's abstraction and reifies it with details of contemporary culture, then moves on into fantasy. [June 29, 1998]
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100An exhilarating, fascinating story about the amazing and horrifying depth we are sinking toward as we strain to raise the entertainment bar another notch.
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90The Truman Show is one of the films for which the '90s will be remembered, and it is not to be missed.
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90Achieves a kind of beauty through its overlaying enigmas, and Carrey.
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90Hollywood's smartest media satire in years--and a breakthrough for Jim Carrey.
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88A 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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88Funny... and the payoff is the most provocative Hollywood concoction in a while.
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88The result is a rarity on any screen: intelligent fun.
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80Carrey is a genius at registering the rage behind television's sunny smile, while Laura Linney excels as his wife.
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The film is a nightmare but an oddly comforting one.
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80A smart, engaging movie.
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80Warm, affecting and refreshingly shtickless, he (Carrey) occupies center stage here through sheer, beguiling force of personality.
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80A sharp-witted, visually layered, gorgeously designed, meticulously directed piece of formula pablum.
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75An appealing, offbeat, one-hundred minute diversion for those who really are tired of monsters tearing down buildings and action heroes saving the world.
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70A cool indictment of television's near-irresistible pandering to the inner peeping tom.
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70The film is unfortunately about little more than its potentially mind-boggling plot and structure.
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70Undeniably provocative and reasonably entertaining, The Truman Show is one of those high-concept movies whose concept is both clever and dumb.
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67It's unusually provocative and challenging for a Hollywood movie and, surprisingly, allows the audience to piece things together without too much external direction.
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FranciscoC.9A fantastic movie with a interesting plot that makes you think, and a very good performance by Jim Carrey.