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"...[Carrey's] performance is simply spellbinding..." -- 5 out of 5 stars 10/01/1999 p.104Rolling Stone
"...Carrey triumphs in a hilarious and heartfelt performance that reveals an uncommon sensitivity and grace..." 06/25/1998 p.99-100 Sight and Sound
"...Poignant and haunting....A moving exploration of creation-anxiety..." 10/01/1998 p.36-58 Entertainment Weekly
"...Niccol's witty script tunes into our hunger..." -- Rating: A 01/15/1999 pp.64-5 Los Angeles Times
"...Adventurous, provocative, even daring, THE TRUMAN SHOW has been directed with enviable grace and restraint by Peter Weir..." Uncut
4 stars out of 5 -- "1998's ingenious THE TRUMAN SHOW is a remarkable exercise in pre-emptively satirizing the reality TV phenomenon that it surely helped to inspire." 05/01/2006 p.150 James Berardinelli's ReelViews 8 of 10
For those who bemoan Hollywood's consistent lack of originality...The Truman Show is a welcome surprise. Over the years, there have been many satires about the power of television, but none has taken this route. Director Peter Weir, whose past credits include Witness, Dead Poets Society, and Fearless, has wed this cautionary tale about media strength with a surprisingly affecting (if somewhat uneven) drama about one man's search for the meaning of life. - James Berardinelli
Chicago Sun-Times 9 of 10
I enjoyed The Truman Show on its levels of comedy and drama; I liked Truman in the same way I liked Forrest Gump--because he was a good man, honest, and easy to sympathize with. But the underlying ideas made the movie more than just entertainment. Like Gattaca, the previous film written by Niccol, it brings into focus the new values that technology is forcing on humanity. Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives--of course we must, right? But are these good things to do? The irony is, the people who will finally answer that question will be the very ones produced by the process. - Roger Ebert
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