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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.
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One of the smartest, most inventive movies in memory, it manages to be as endearing as it is provocative. Aug 18, 2014 | Full Review…
One of the smartest, most inventive movies in memory, it manages to be as endearing as it is provocative.
Rita Kempley
The premise of Peter Weir's The Truman Show is both reasonable and ludicrous, its execution sublime. Aug 18, 2014 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
The premise of Peter Weir's The Truman Show is both reasonable and ludicrous, its execution sublime.
Jami Bernard
Most movies are lucky to have one idea rattling around inside. The unusually resonant Truman positively vibrates with themes. Aug 18, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Most movies are lucky to have one idea rattling around inside. The unusually resonant Truman positively vibrates with themes.
Carrie Rickey
The Truman Show finds a near-miraculous balance of humor and feeling in the keen intelligence of the script by Andrew Niccol and the prodigal inventiveness of Dead Poets Society director Peter Weir at his very best. Aug 18, 2014 | Full Review…
The Truman Show finds a near-miraculous balance of humor and feeling in the keen intelligence of the script by Andrew Niccol and the prodigal inventiveness of Dead Poets Society director Peter Weir at his very best.
Peter Travers
To be sure, the movie has plenty of laughs, but like sunlight on the deceptively calm surface of the sea, its light humor dances fitfully over dark and dangerous undercurrents. Aug 18, 2014 | Full Review…
To be sure, the movie has plenty of laughs, but like sunlight on the deceptively calm surface of the sea, its light humor dances fitfully over dark and dangerous undercurrents.
Michael O'Sullivan
Peter Weir's film is so cleverly conceived and brilliantly executed that it almost seems like a fresh thought. And even if it doesn't, it nevertheless forms the basis of a very witty exercise. Aug 18, 2014 | Full Review…
Peter Weir's film is so cleverly conceived and brilliantly executed that it almost seems like a fresh thought. And even if it doesn't, it nevertheless forms the basis of a very witty exercise.
Richard Williams
One of the greatest American films of the 1990s. Aug 19, 2017 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
One of the greatest American films of the 1990s.
Tim Brayton
A disturbing, spooky but eventually uplifting drama/satire/horror film starring Jim Carrey. Aug 18, 2014 | Full Review…
A disturbing, spooky but eventually uplifting drama/satire/horror film starring Jim Carrey.
Tom Sander
Director Peter Weir has created a strikingly subversive piece of information-age paranoia as visionary as anything Hollywood might manufacture this summer, or this decade. Aug 18, 2014 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
Director Peter Weir has created a strikingly subversive piece of information-age paranoia as visionary as anything Hollywood might manufacture this summer, or this decade.
Philip Booth
As inventive and creative as Weir's staging is, The Truman Show wouldn't work without credible Truman. And Carrey carries off the tricky role with a chipperness that belies a deep-seeded longing for more in life than surface perfection. Aug 18, 2014 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
As inventive and creative as Weir's staging is, The Truman Show wouldn't work without credible Truman. And Carrey carries off the tricky role with a chipperness that belies a deep-seeded longing for more in life than surface perfection.
Dennis King
Under a cheerfully sunny sky that only heightens the paranoia, it's brilliant in conception and execution, with dozens of bright touches -- verbal jokes, visual jokes, spooky looks. Aug 18, 2014 | Rating: 4/4
Under a cheerfully sunny sky that only heightens the paranoia, it's brilliant in conception and execution, with dozens of bright touches -- verbal jokes, visual jokes, spooky looks.
Matt Soergel
Weir's touch is light and effortless, the film's pleasures falling as gently as the Mozart music piped from Seahaven's sky. Jun 27, 2014 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
Weir's touch is light and effortless, the film's pleasures falling as gently as the Mozart music piped from Seahaven's sky.
Evan Williams
One of the best movies I have ever seen.
Super Reviewer
Christof: We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented. "On the air. Unaware." The Truman Show may have one of the most genius premises ever for a film. There's, especially today, always this fear of being watched. With all the paranoia about our phone calls and texts being sold to the government and with cameras everywhere and anywhere, it's a common part of our everyday. So with The Truman Show, we view a protagonist whose whole existence is a tv show. He's been on the air for thirty years, since his birth and he doesn't even know it. Truman is a married, insurance agent. That's his "character" in the tv show, The Truman Show, that he stars as. The show was created by Christof, and everyone in the town he lives in is in on it. They are all actors. Truman is beginning to suspect all this and just wants to find the girl who he really wants to be with. But the show controls his life without his even knowing it. This film is pretty much flawless. It's well thought out and just keeps getting better as it goes on, while many movies with great premises like this run out of steam near the end. The Truman Show is a perfect example, that great writing is what makes a movie great. Sure Peter Weir is legendary director and his work here is among his best, but what makes this movie so good, is definitely the screenplay. Also you gotta love Jim Carey in movies like this. This is where he thrives. So if you haven't seen The Truman Show, it is a must watch. It's nonstop fun, intelligent entertainment. The story has good ideas present at every turning point, and just when you think the movie has reached as good of quality as it can, it introduces something else that makes it even better. This is a masterpiece and it would be a shame to miss a film like this one.
This is the new way of comedy movie should be and I must say that I'm impressed with the idea of this movie about making someone's life is a 24-hour nonstop TV show is a brilliant idea.. Andrew Niccol wrote a great screenplay while Peter Weir makes the movie wrapped amazingly.. And the cast did quite impressive even the credits should all go to Jim Carrey with probably this movie is one of his best performance.. All I can say is I like this movie and I'm happy how the story works..
One of the few times i could stand Jim Carrey. This movie was much better than i expected considering my dislike for Carrey
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