I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)

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This is the most interesting role Carrey has had in a long while.

March 4, 2011 Full Review

Peter Howell

Toronto Star

Top Critic

Jim Carrey is the narrator... transforming what could have been a cliched con man comedy, generic Jim Carrey-character comedy or run-of-the-mill gay coming-out comedy into something smarter, sweeter and downright giddy.

January 31, 2011 Full Review

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Top Critic

Russell was a fascinating character and a real puzzle box; but the filmmakers have turned his life into a broad farce with one wocka-wocka gag after another.

January 4, 2011 Full Review

J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

[The] elaborate cons may be fascinating, daring stuff, but the heart of the picture is the romantic relationship, which is squeezed out to the edges.

December 23, 2010 Full Review

Rene Rodriguez

Miami Herald

Top Critic

Yes, some familiar Carrey tactics are on display, but the star's performance has real heart - it's easily the best thing he has done since Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

December 17, 2010 Full Review

Steven Rea

Philadelphia Inquirer

Top Critic

A delirious comedy that remains on track largely thanks to Jim Carrey's goofy but grounded performance.

December 16, 2010 Full Review

Colin Covert

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Top Critic

Despite its title, it has nothing to do with cigarettes. But its star, as he once famously said on screen, is absolutely "smokin'."

January 16, 2013 Full Review

Roger Moore

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

...it's the film's fearless go-for broke style which makes I Love You Phillip Morris such a success.

October 24, 2012 Full Review

Cara Nash

FILMINK (Australia)

Jim Carrey brings dynamo force to the story of a brilliant con man and the guy he loved

August 12, 2011 Full Review

Robert Denerstein

Movie Habit

ILYPM is quite good and it's a shame that this film was shunted around the backburners for so long.

August 2, 2011 Full Review

Matt Neal

The Standard

Above all, it is the wonderful performances of Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor as a couple of misfits for whom love is everything, that stay with us

July 31, 2011 Full Review

Louise Keller

Urban Cinefile

I'm describing I Love You Phillip Morris as an inferior version of Catch Me If You Can. It's trying to tell a similar story in a similar vein but it just doesn't work.

July 11, 2011 Full Review

Matthew Toomey

ABC Radio Brisbane

Inspirada en una increíble historia real, esta comedia de Jim Carrey no es para nada la típica comedia de Jim Carrey, aunque haga uso de sus habituales recursos histriónicos. Una comedia romántica absurda, irreverente y gay.

June 17, 2011 Full Review

Enrique Buchichio

Uruguay Total

But truth be told, no film has conveyed true love quite as convincingly in a very long time.

May 15, 2011 Full Review

Simon Foster

sbs.com.au

A remarkably strong debut...

April 18, 2011 Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

You have to hand it to Jim Carrey. He could take the easy paycheck time after time in bland movie after bland movie, but he keeps on running down these weird roads and that's where he winds up doing his best work.

April 4, 2011 Full Review

Dave White

Movies.com

Leaving aside the extent in which the premise of I Love You Phillip Morris is essentially very sad and serious, this is overall an extremely funny and at times very sweet romantic comedy.

April 1, 2011 Full Review

Thomas Caldwell

Cinema Autopsy

You couldn't make this story up, as the truth proves to be stranger than fiction.

March 14, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

It's a joy to see Carrey used in a way that revels in his schizophrenic nature while also trying to make some authentic emotional sense of it as well.

February 1, 2011 Full Review

Eric Melin

Scene-Stealers.com

Carrey reminds us here... that he can be a genuinely passionate actor able to skillfully combine comedy with pathos when he is removed from the Hollywood machine, which strives to turn him into a cartoon...

January 24, 2011 Full Review

MaryAnn Johanson

Flick Filosopher

I like the outre screwball flavor of the piece; it feels a little like Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can crossed with one of John Waters' gently transgressive cult movies.

January 16, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

...a minstrel show of gay stereotypes.

January 7, 2011 Full Review

Daniel M. Kimmel

New England Movies Weekly

A few words of warning: I Love You Phillip Morris has nothing to do with the powerful tobacco company or the man it was named after.

January 7, 2011 Full Review

Adam Tobias

Watertown Daily Times

I Love You Phillip Morris is first and foremost a romantic comedy -- and a more effective one than any to hit theaters in 2010.

January 7, 2011 Full Review

Mike Scott

Times-Picayune

• 1. Screecher: ENKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK! ENKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!
  2. Steven Russell: What the hell is that?
  3. Phillip Morris: Oh that is the Screecher next door. He does that all night. I swear to God, I don't get any sleep ever. Drives me fucking crazy.
  – Submitted by Christian B (11 months ago)
• 1. Phillip Morris: You're not even a fucking lawyer are you?! You fucking liar!
  – Submitted by Christian B (11 months ago)
• 1. Steven Russell: I'm gay. Gay, gay, gay, gay, gay. Have been for as long as I can remember.
  – Submitted by Christian B (11 months ago)
• 1. Phillip Morris: Steven! Steven!
  2. Steven Russell: What the hell are you doing?
  3. Phillip Morris: I LOVE YOU!
  4. Phillip Morris: I love you too! We'll be together soon! I promise, I promise! I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS!
  – Submitted by Christian B (11 months ago)
• 1. Steven Russell: I'm gonna take care of everything.
  2. Phillip Morris: *sigh*
  3. Phillip Morris: Enough romance, let's fuck!
  – Submitted by Christian B (11 months ago)
• 1. Steven Russell: My name's Steven Russell.
  2. Phillip Morris: Well, nice to meet you Steven Russell. My name is Phillip Morris.
  – Submitted by Christian B (11 months ago)

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