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03/24/02
The Truman Show (1998)
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Reviews Counted:96
Fresh:91
Rotten:5
Average Rating:8.2/10
Consensus: A funny, tender, and thought-provoking film, The Truman Show is all the more noteworthy for its remarkably prescient vision of runaway celebrity culture and a nation with an insatiable thirst for the private details of ordinary lives.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: Comic actor Jim Carrey plays it (mostly) straight for this smart satire from director Peter Weir (DEAD POETS SOCIETY). The life of Truman Burbank (Carrey) has been broadcast around the world with... [More]
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Reviews for The Truman Show
A brilliant, unique, unforgettable film.
01/01/00
The intimations of profundity, of reality perceived, mediated, and processed, are milked for heavy irony rather than enlarging complexit.
08/24/05
One of those high-concept movies whose concept is both clever and dumb.
01/01/00
Top CriticThis is a profound movie for people who don't like to think, or perhaps for people who are in the media and of the media, and can't imagine any life outside it.
08/07/04
Top CriticSome of us may go out wishing for something meatier, edgier.
08/05/07
Carrey doesn't break off into outrageous physical comedy bits as fans might hope, and the film does take a while to find its legs, but there is something rewarding in its quirky demeanor.
12/06/05
The biggest star here is director Weir in this bold and beautiful tour de force.
01/01/00
A hilarious and breathtakingly conceived satire which also allows Carrey to edge away from broad comedy.
12/14/08
The result is a rarity on any screen: intelligent fun.
07/12/02
Las secuencias de sincronía de eventos para que Truman crea todo son perfectas.
06/05/04
A good, intelligent, insightful movie...
04/27/07
Top CriticA crowd pleaser that caters to our horror of totalitarianism, our love of personal freedom, our belief - justified or deluded - that knowledge is a powerful tool and that access to information is a God-given right.
01/01/00
This inspired movie is possibly the best - and most layered - summer picture in years.
01/01/00
A thought-provoking, original movie that works on many levels.
01/01/00
In real life, most of us agree the Truman Burbank reality would never be allowed. Yet we probably wouldn't deny that some day, the way things are going, a variation on it just might occur.
01/01/00
Just a little too pleased with its own abrupt resolution to be completely satisfying.
09/25/03
Weir presents The Truman Show as a fairy tale, not an Orwellian nightmare
01/01/00
The conception is so audacious and inventive that the movie winds up doing something genuinely radical: it bores through the boundaries of our entire media-saturated culture.
01/01/00
As it stands, it's still good, but it just doesn't live up to its own hype.
01/01/00
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