Confessions isn’t a movie that deserves to be gonged. But it doesn’t quite merit the '516 dollars and 32 cent' prize, either.
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01/24/03
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
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Reviews Counted:158
Fresh:124
Rotten:34
Average Rating:7.1/10
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
Clooney's direction sets a unique tone that lets us laugh at, hope for and pity Barris as we tag along for a herky-jerky ride through his memories.
01/24/03
Throws out so much and so quickly that the hit-to-miss ratio is rather poor.
01/23/03
A magnificent directorial debut...Sam Rockwell is one of the best actors on the planet. Original, bizarre, and consistently entertaining.
01/23/03
You won't believe much of it, but you will laugh at the audacity, at the who's who casting and the sheer insanity of it all.
01/23/03
Celebrity and pop culture are areas on which Clooney is well-equipped to comment, but the other aspect of Barris' life -- clandestine meetings with shadowy figures who may simply be delusions -- leave him at a loss.
01/23/03
Undeniably fascinating as it unfolds but ultimately not very satisfying.
01/23/03
As a director, Clooney doesn't have an original idea to speak of, but he knows how to swipe the best indie-approved moves.
01/23/03
Reinforces 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 Criticboth overstuffed and undernourished... The film can't be called a solid success, although there's plenty of evidence here to indicate Clooney might have better luck next time.
01/23/03
The concoction entertains from beginning to end, though the lessons of Barris’ life are as slippery as his facts.
01/23/03
...so busy having fun it isn't burdened with being important -- though I can't think of another movie that has as many important things to say about ambition and failure.
01/23/03
Rockwell 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 CriticThe evil twin of A Beautiful Mind: take out the false life-affirming tone and moral clarity from Howard's movie, add some nasty humour and you get box-office poison.
01/23/03
Clooney's version of a beautiful mind blends Kaufman lunacy with a surreal story.
01/23/03
The scintillating aspect of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind lies in trying to discern fact from fiction — or at least fantasy.
01/23/03
It doesn't quite deserve the gong, but there are more fascinating acts than "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind."
01/23/03
The movie is like a party that you can’t remember attending the next morning.
01/22/03
Peddles skepticism while offering up narrative absurdities so fanciful that they must be true.
01/21/03
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