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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
Even though Confessions of a Dangerous Mind can be too hip and too glib in its attempt to wring universal truths from Barris' sordid delusions, any movie that stars both Rutger Hauer and the Unknown Comic is all right by me.
Comedy both surreal and silly, which comfortably fits the characterization of Barris as a cynical yet pathetic sap who seeks fame and respect by trying to come up with tv-show ideas.
This movie is full of surprises, starting with the fact that it's one of the most dramatically successful film biographies in memory.
Although delightfully overzealous, Clooney's field trip of loose-ended frivolity sputters aimlessly in our attempts to embrace a complicated soul being presented as a sympathetic human question mark.
One of the year's most weirdly engaging and unpredictable character pieces.
With this film, Rockwell is now a leading man, a force in Hollywood.
Confessions may not be a straightforward bio, nor does it offer much in the way of Barris' motivations, but the film is an oddly fascinating depiction of an architect of pop culture.
Top CriticIt's tremendously clever, but ultimately pointless.
Never mind whether you buy the stuff about Barris being a CIA hit man. The kooky yet shadowy vision Clooney sustains throughout is daring, inventive and impressive.
A film so tedious that it is impossible to care whether that boast is true or not.
Top CriticGeorge Clooney proves he's quite a talented director and Sam Rockwell shows us he's a world-class actor with Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
An irresistible sham.
Clooney has not only made one of the best debuts since Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich, but one of the best films of the year.
Clooney's direction successfully steals from the best of pal Steven Soderbergh's work.
Top CriticA head-clearing, mind-blowing blast from the past -- one of the year's best.
There's nothing terribly witty, clever, satirical, or irreverent about Charlie Kauffman's screenplay.
Fast and loose, leaving the string-tying to an audience savvy from years of immersion in an ever-festering, increasingly perverse cultural stew.
Barris' CIA assassinations make a neat metaphor for indiscriminate cultural degradation and personal emotional failings, but neither Rockwell nor Clooney are successful in getting us to feel either love or loathing for the man
Add yet another hat to a talented head, Clooney's a good director.
A good piece of work more often than not.
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