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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:26
Rotten:5
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: Rockwell is spot-on as Barris, and Clooney directs with entertaining style and flair.
Theatrical Release:Jan 24, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $15,878,598
Synopsis: George Clooney makes his directorial debut with this frenetic, visually dazzling black comedy. Based on notorious television producer Chuck Barris' "unauthorized autobiography," Clooney's film... [More]
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Julia Roberts, Sam Rockwell, George Clooney
Director: George Clooney, Steven Soderbergh
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Reviews for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Top CriticA darkly enjoyable roller-coaster ride.
01/24/03
Top CriticA picture that is surely one of the oddest ever made.
01/24/03
Top CriticClooney, who on the basis of this movie has a big career ahead of him behind the camera, demonstrates a real flair for visual comedy.
01/24/03
Top CriticThe movie makes a case for itself through sheer oddness and perversity.
01/24/03
Top CriticMaybe the title should have been Confusions of a Dangerous Mind, though the confusion, in this case, can be pretty sublime.
01/24/03
Top CriticWho would've thought a movie about Chuck Barris could be so rich and entertaining?
01/24/03
Top CriticA blast from beginning to end and shows first-time director George Clooney is equal parts fearless, brilliant and perhaps daft. But an intriguing daftness it is.
01/24/03
Top CriticRockwell lets us see all the joy, lust, self-pity, and rage with which Barris gonged himself.
01/24/03
Top CriticClooney makes a sharply entertaining directorial debut.
01/24/03
Top CriticI have to confess there's nothing very dangerous going on in a comedy that is neither as twistedly weird as your average Gong Show contestant nor as arch as an interview on The Newlywed Game.
01/24/03
Top CriticNot only intriguing as a story but great to look at, a marriage of bright pop images from the 1960s and 1970s and dark, cold spyscapes that seem to have wandered in from John le Carre.
01/24/03
Top CriticReinforces the talents of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, creator of Adaptation and Being John Malkovich.
01/23/03
Top CriticThe movie is compulsively watchable even if it never quite convinces you that it's much more than a fanciful story.
01/23/03
Top CriticRockwell is wonderful throughout, capturing Barris' inherent sleaziness and insecurity as well as, well, the vision of the man who could be called the godfather of reality TV.
01/23/03
Top CriticConfessions isn't always coherent, but it's sharply comic and surprisingly touching, so hold the gong.
01/20/03
Top CriticMr. Clooney, Mr. Kaufman and all their collaborators are entitled to take a deep bow for fashioning an engrossing entertainment out of an almost sure-fire prescription for a critical and commercial disaster.
01/17/03
Top CriticThe problem with making a movie about a hollow man is that, when things start to get heavy, you’re stuck with nothingness at the core.
01/16/03
Top CriticConfessions may not be a straightforward bio, nor does it offer much in the way of Barris' motivations, but the film is an oddly fascinating depiction of an architect of pop culture.
01/02/03
Top CriticNever mind whether you buy the stuff about Barris being a CIA hit man. The kooky yet shadowy vision Clooney sustains throughout is daring, inventive and impressive.
01/02/03
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