When his face turns green and his limbs get limber, Carrey's pretty much unstoppable. This cartoon-y creation is an amazing fusion of physical comedy and state-of-the- art cinema illusion.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 12, 2013

The gangland plot is flimsy (bad guy Peter Greene wears too much eyeliner), and the jokes are erratic, but it's a far better showcase for Carrey's comic-from-Uranus talent than Ace Ventura.

Full Review | Apr 12, 2013

Carrey and his aggressive overbite are back, but this time he's better used as an ingredient instead of as the plot.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 12, 2013

If a movie star was born in Ace Ventura, he is christened in The Mask. Quite simply, this is the best and freest crazy comedy to come along since Beetlejuice.

| Apr 12, 2013

Not only is he adept at physical humor, the kind of knockabout stuff that recalls the classic silent clowns, but Carrey also has a bright and likable screen presence, a lost puppy quality that is surprisingly endearing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 12, 2013

Carrey now has the clout to find a vehicle worthy of his hyperactive gooniness. When he does, we'll see if he's truly a jester for our time or simply the moron of the moment.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 6, 2010

Adroitly directed, viscerally and visually dynamic and just plain fun.

Full Review | Nov 24, 2008

The results are easy to watch, though awfully familiar and simpleminded.

| Apr 18, 2007

The design is bright as a button and the transformation scenes real eye-poppers, but the film's best special effect is putty-faced Carrey with his razzle-dazzle star turn as the affable Stanley and his manic alter ego.

| Feb 9, 2006

Despite everything, it's still a marvellously energetic movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 6, 2005

Bright-eyed, crazily intense, irrepressibly silly, Mr. Carrey can be funny without fireworks. He deserves material clever enough to let him do just that.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 8, 2003

Carrey is the ultimate party dude, and like the masked man says, this party is smokin'.

Full Review | Jun 6, 2001

Exuberant fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2001

The Mask is a perfect vehicle for the talents of Jim Carrey, who underwhelmed me with Ace Ventura, Pet Detective but here seems to have found a story and character that work together with manic energy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Doesn't have any more material than a Tex Avery cartoon.

| Jan 1, 2000

Even without the state-of-the-art, boundary-busting computerized effects from Industrial Light & Magic, Carrey's a human cartoon, and his spontaneous, Avery-esque, anything-for-a-laugh outrageousness makes this otherwise blank Mask a must-see.

| Jan 1, 2000

Carrey has yet to find the perfect vehicle for himself, but The Mask, while hardly as fantastic as it should have been, is a step in the right direction.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000