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

A bold, powerful, reverberant fantasy that nails the zeitgeist with enough thematic richness to carry us into and beyond the millennium.

| Feb 3, 2023

The entire movie is a dazzlingly executed conceit that plays expertly on our sense of media manipulation.

| Feb 2, 2023

Inventive and riveting, it shows us more than the adventures of an unlikely champion. It shows us ourselves.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 2, 2023

The casting of Jim Carrey was a masterstroke... the result is a brilliant, and touching performance unlike anything Carrey has done before.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 2, 2023

The Truman Show is built on an interesting concept. But the director and writers don't do enough to develop the concept.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2023

[A] masterfully executed cautionary tale... Yet there's something missing here: While Weir delivers both sharp wit and gentle poignancy, Truman's end catharsis needs greater emotional heft.

| Jun 15, 2020

One of the smartest, most inventive movies in memory, it manages to be as endearing as it is provocative.

| Aug 18, 2014

The premise of Peter Weir's The Truman Show is both reasonable and ludicrous, its execution sublime.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 18, 2014

Most movies are lucky to have one idea rattling around inside. The unusually resonant Truman positively vibrates with themes.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 18, 2014

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

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

Carrey's performance will impress even those whose teeth he sets on edge.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 18, 2014

The Truman Show will probably be the most thought-provoking "big" movie to come out this summer, and that says a whole lot more about other movies than it does about this one. You should, however, see it for Carrey's newly unveiled charms.

| Aug 18, 2014

In the end, Weir's movie is more a capitulation than a challenge to television, and a vulgar one at that. Truman turns out to be more Burbank than he is True-man.

| Aug 18, 2014

Weir's touch is light and effortless, the film's pleasures falling as gently as the Mozart music piped from Seahaven's sky.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 27, 2014

The Truman Show is a movie and the name of a television show within the movie, both of which star Jim Carrey. This tidy little metaphysic is superbly maintained throughout Peter Weir's flawlessly executed film.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 19, 2013

The important thing is that Carrey and the filmmakers have taken pains to give Truman that soul -- which, in itself, provides a kind of depth. In any case, it gets you to care about how it's going to end.

| Jun 19, 2013