I Love You Phillip Morris Reviews
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Despite its title, it has nothing to do with cigarettes. But its star, as he once famously said on screen, is absolutely "smokin'."
FILMINK (Australia)
...it's the film's fearless go-for broke style which makes I Love You Phillip Morris such a success.
Movie Habit
Jim Carrey brings dynamo force to the story of a brilliant con man and the guy he loved
The Standard
ILYPM is quite good and it's a shame that this film was shunted around the backburners for so long.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Urban Cinefile
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
ABC Radio Brisbane
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.
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| Original Score: C+
Uruguay Total
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
sbs.com.au
But truth be told, no film has conveyed true love quite as convincingly in a very long time.
Reel Film Reviews
A remarkably strong debut...
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Movies.com
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.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Cinema Autopsy
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.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
You couldn't make this story up, as the truth proves to be stranger than fiction.
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| Original Score: C+
Top CriticThis is the most interesting role Carrey has had in a long while.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Scene-Stealers.com
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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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.
Flick Filosopher
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...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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.
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| Original Score: 82/100
New England Movies Weekly
...a minstrel show of gay stereotypes.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Watertown Daily Times
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.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Times-Picayune
I Love You Phillip Morris is first and foremost a romantic comedy -- and a more effective one than any to hit theaters in 2010.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
