| 100 |
Variety
A gemlike picture crafted with rare and immaculate precision.
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| 100 |
Chicago Tribune
Delicately subversive, hypnotically sardonic, full of terror, banality and wafer-thin lyricism.
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| 100 |
Washington Post
One of the smartest, most inventive movies in memory, it manages to be as endearing as it is provocative.
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| 100 |
Washington Post
That 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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| 100 |
San Francisco Chronicle
An original, inspired piece of work.
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| 100 |
Christian Science Monitor
Weir'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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| 100 |
Chicago Sun-Times
I 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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| 100 |
Newsweek
Jeff Giles
A miraculous movie. It will rattle both your head and heart
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| 100 |
Entertainment Weekly
A beautifully sinister and transfixing entertainment-age daydream.
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| 100 |
New York Daily News
A sunny-looking movie about the darkest paranoia.
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| 100 |
Film.com
A brilliant and daring film.
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| 100 |
Los Angeles Times
Adventurous, provocative, even daring.
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| 100 |
TNT RoughCut
Graham Verdon
An 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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| 100 |
The New Republic
The 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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| 90 |
Mr. Showbiz
The 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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| 90 |
Time
Hollywood's smartest media satire in years--and a breakthrough for Jim Carrey.
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| 90 |
Film.com
Achieves a kind of beauty through its overlaying enigmas, and Carrey.
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| 88 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The result is a rarity on any screen: intelligent fun.
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| 88 |
USA Today
Funny... and the payoff is the most provocative Hollywood concoction in a while.
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| 88 |
San Francisco Examiner
A 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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| 80 |
Slate
A sharp-witted, visually layered, gorgeously designed, meticulously directed piece of formula pablum.
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| 80 |
Dallas Observer
Peter Rainer
The film is a nightmare but an oddly comforting one.
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| 80 |
LA Weekly
Carrey is a genius at registering the rage behind television's sunny smile, while Laura Linney excels as his wife.
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| 80 |
Film.com
A smart, engaging movie.
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| 80 |
The New York Times
Warm, affecting and refreshingly shtickless, he (Carrey) occupies center stage here through sheer, beguiling force of personality.
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| 75 |
ReelViews
An 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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| 70 |
TV Guide
A cool indictment of television's near-irresistible pandering to the inner peeping tom.
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| 70 |
Chicago Reader
Undeniably 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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| 70 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
The film is unfortunately about little more than its potentially mind-boggling plot and structure.
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| 67 |
Austin Chronicle
It'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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