Marks an auspicious debut for George Clooney in the role of director -- a job he already seems to be a natural at.
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02/16/03
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
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Reviews Counted:158
Fresh:124
Rotten:34
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: Rockwell is spot-on as Barris, and Clooney directs with entertaining style and flair.
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $15,878,598
Synopsis: George Clooney makes his directorial debut with this frenetic, visually dazzling black comedy. Based on notorious television producer Chuck Barris' "unauthorized autobiography," Clooney's film... [More]
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Julia Roberts, Sam Rockwell, George Clooney
Director: George Clooney, Steven Soderbergh
Reviews for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
1 - 20 (sorted by rotten rating; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticDirecting for the first time, Clooney turns out to be a natural when it comes to parody...
08/01/03
Top CriticAn intriguing, bizarre and challenging film that invites us into a world filled with larger-than-life characters and strange occurrences.
10/18/08
Top CriticBecause of movies like this, nostalgia just ain't what it used to be.
08/11/03
The overload of murders and double-crosses make Barris’s life seem more and more like the folly of a screenwriter’s imagination.
12/27/02
The ingredients were there for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind to become a cult classic, but the resulting film is a tedious Hollywood yawner.
01/07/03
The ingredients were there for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind to become a cult classic, but the resulting film is a tedious Hollywood yawner.
12/06/05
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind works best as a rollicking trip through the pop culture of the '60s and '70s.
01/17/03
The story winks at show-biz insider parody -- you might end up yearning for more quality time with Bob Eubanks.
01/24/03
...should've been a lot better.
12/23/02
Celebrity and pop culture are areas on which Clooney is well-equipped to comment, but the other aspect of Barris' life -- clandestine meetings with shadowy figures who may simply be delusions -- leave him at a loss.
01/23/03
Throws out so much and so quickly that the hit-to-miss ratio is rather poor.
01/23/03
Neither revelatory nor truly edgy--merely crassly flamboyant and comedically labored.
12/30/02
In his directorial debut, George Clooney delivers a highly stylized biopic that showcases the confessions of an absurd mind rather than a dangerous one.
01/13/03
The movie feels like it's going to be great, and it carries on feeling that way for a long time, but takeoff just never happens.
03/19/03
There's nothing terribly witty, clever, satirical, or irreverent about Charlie Kauffman's screenplay.
01/02/03
both overstuffed and undernourished... The film can't be called a solid success, although there's plenty of evidence here to indicate Clooney might have better luck next time.
01/23/03
There's nothing dangerous about Chuck Barris' mind. Unfortunately, there's not much interesting about it either.
02/01/03
far less compelling than the trailer indicates—a film that you may not immediately 'Gong' while watching
01/27/03
...a one-note character study about an unhappy, insecure, delusional paranoiac, whose assassin gimmick wears thin almost before it gets started.
09/02/03
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