It’s a curious social experiment idea, even if it's steeped in a fantasy so comprehensive that it always feels unconvincing.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 16, 2024

a prophetic comedy of ideas that hit all too close to home in our media-savvy, television-obsessed, celebrity-enthralled times

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 8, 2023

Thinking about The Truman Show in 2023, it’s clear the film—marvellously written by Andrew Niccol—was ahead of its time in some respects and doomed to be quickly dated in others.

| Aug 30, 2023

Weir gave art-house slickness to screenwriter Andrew Niccol’s ponderous attack on television’s fraudulence and mass-audience cretins.

| Aug 4, 2023

The cruel irony of successfully averting disaster is that the morning after, having learned nothing, we redoubled our efforts to sell ourselves to our things.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 17, 2023

The Truman Show is a bold and inventive creation that holds itself as one of the defining films of its time.

| Jul 16, 2023

The script by Andrew Niccol is endlessly inventive, and director Peter Weir finds just the right tone for the project.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 11, 2023

The Truman Show might feel like it's from a different era but the film predates a cultural obsession with reality television while speaking to the dangers of surveillance in a satirical way.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 4, 2023

... far more profound and elegant, examining the relationship between the observed and observer, between capital-driven entertainment and individual need.

| Jul 4, 2023

There is a reason The Truman Show was nominated for multiple awards including three Oscars.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 3, 2023

The Truman Show twists its appealing parts into an even more impressive whole.

| Original Score: A | Feb 15, 2023

There are no surprises in The Truman Show, except that Weir and Carrey manage to keep the picture on course.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 15, 2023

This is acting that isn't, but Carrey doesn't let the two-way mirror throw him; his unreality becomes his only real truth.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 14, 2023

It is really about freedom... and it is to our own enslavement that this powerful, brilliant, and profound film speaks.

| Feb 14, 2023

It is so perfectly realized, it's hard to believe someone hasn't presented this concept on the big screen before.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 14, 2023

The Truman Show is that rare thing, a provocative movie that is at once deeply thoughtful and hugely entertaining.

| Feb 14, 2023

The film is assuredly one of the most defining and best films of the 1990s and ranks high up there in film history.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 13, 2023

Post-O.J., post-Diana, a scenario like The Truman Show becomes a more and more vivid reminder that media realities, however true-to-life, are contrived realities and our thirst for vicarious thrills trumps our respect for other's dignity.

| Original Score: A | Feb 8, 2023

As Truman's consciousness expands, so does Carrey's. By the end, he takes us to places previously uncharted -- and so, to our surprise, does the film.

| Feb 3, 2023

It is brilliant art about the supremacy of life over art.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 3, 2023