Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 159
Fresh: 126 | Rotten: 33
Rockwell is spot-on as Barris, and Clooney directs with entertaining style and flair.
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 5
Rockwell is spot-on as Barris, and Clooney directs with entertaining style and flair.
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Average Rating: 3.4/5
User Ratings: 53,569
Chuck Barris is best known to most Americans as the guy who used to host The Gong Show. He was also the creator and producer of The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and a handful of other successful game shows in the 1960s and 1970s. But was he also a hired killer working with the CIA? That's the take-it-or-leave-it premise of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, based on the memoir of the same name by Chuck Barris. Barris (Sam Rockwell) grows up dreaming of success in show biz and winning the hearts
Aug 15, 2003 Limited
Sep 9, 2003
$15.9M
Miramax Films
All Critics (161) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (132) | Rotten (34) | DVD (34)
The American film of the season -- and maybe of the year, or the last couple of years...
A darkly enjoyable roller-coaster ride.
A picture that is surely one of the oddest ever made.
Clooney, who on the basis of this movie has a big career ahead of him behind the camera, demonstrates a real flair for visual comedy.
The movie makes a case for itself through sheer oddness and perversity.
[Clooney] and Kaufman have crafted a truly bizarro masterpiece -- the kind made for instant cult status and midnight runs.
Well-acted and well-written, for mature teens+.
An intriguing, bizarre and challenging film that invites us into a world filled with larger-than-life characters and strange occurrences.
Fact and possible fiction amble to a photo finish as one of pop culture's nuttiest milestones.
Clooney wanted Kaufman's script delivered without corruption or softening. He has overcorrected and made a glum, almost listless movie.
Directing a movie is no picnic, but I'll be damned if Mr. Clooney doesn't make it seem like fun.
Brimming with slightly self-conscious directorial panache, the movie zips between nearly three decades, fantasy and reality without ever really deciding how seriously it wants to take itself.
A terrific actor, a handsome movie star and now an accomplished director--damn you, Mr. Clooney, for making it that much more unfair for the average joe likes of myself.
Clooney directs it! How could it be any good?
Noir fantasy with the pop funkiness of '70s game shows
Un prodigio narrativo muy diferente a todo lo que suele producir Hollywood, pero no por capricho de un director sino al servicio de una historia y de un punto de vista.
Bounces around like the smarter and weirder older brother of Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can.
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is freakin' brilliant. Sam Rockwell gives a whack-you-upside-the-head dose of his talent!
(George) Clooney's commentary track is interesting as he describes his jitters at going behind the camera, who he spoke to for advice, how he gathered his cast . . .
Not as impressive as to what I was looking forward to, but worked as a pastime. Nevertheless, its tagline continues to be among my most favorites.
January 31, 2009Super Reviewer
Either George Clooney is becoming an awesome director or Steven Soderbergh is ghost directing for him.
October 27, 2011Super Reviewer
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