I got tired of looking at George’s butt in Solaris, and I felt the same of Rockwell here.
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01/21/03
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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
...an aggressively unpleasant comedy-a raunchy, bloodthirsty epic of self-flagellating sex guilt and apocalyptic self-hatred. It's also about the host of The Gong Show.
01/21/03
Confessions isn't always coherent, but it's sharply comic and surprisingly touching, so hold the gong.
01/20/03
Top CriticGo see it and enjoy.
01/19/03
Clooney has made a remarkable, if unsettled and unsettling picture.
01/18/03
An entertaining film, if not exactly an insightful one.
01/18/03
Mr. 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 Critic...sort of a red velvet twin to Steven Spielberg’s pastel Catch Me If You Can
01/17/03
A satisfying trip for idiot box fans who like their kitschy television nostalgia mixed with a hint of imagination.
01/17/03
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind works best as a rollicking trip through the pop culture of the '60s and '70s.
01/17/03
Rockwell is stunning in his first lead performance, and in any other year, this would be a showy enough turn to be a lock for an Oscar nomination.
01/17/03
The 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 CriticThis astonishingly stylish film also marks Clooney's debut as a director. And it shows such promise that it'll leave you looking forward to whatever he decides to do next, even though he'll have a hard time topping this quirky gem.
01/16/03
Une biographie mi-sérieuse, mi-comique au style indéniable.
01/15/03
In his directorial debut, George Clooney delivers a highly stylized biopic that showcases the confessions of an absurd mind rather than a dangerous one.
01/13/03
While somewhat less than it might have been, the film is a good one, and you’ve got to hand it to director George Clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out.
01/10/03
If it's true, how scary is that? If it's not true, it's a great idea for a story.
01/10/03
Not necessarily the overwhelming pleasure that I might've imagined.
01/09/03
The ingredients were there for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind to become a cult classic, but the resulting film is a tedious Hollywood yawner.
01/07/03
Hypnotic in its lunacy and sorta plaintive in its depiction of blustery patheticness.
01/06/03
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