The American film of the season -- and maybe of the year, or the last couple of years... Andrew O'Hehir,Salon.com
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01/24/2003 @ 12:00 AM
A picture that is surely one of the oddest ever made. Stephen Hunter,Washington Post
The movie makes a case for itself through sheer oddness and perversity. Mick LaSalle,San Francisco Chronicle
Clooney and Kaufman have crafted a truly bizarro masterpiece -- the kind made for instant cult status and midnight runs. Joe Baltake,Sacramento Bee
Who would've thought a movie about Chuck Barris could be so rich and entertaining? Eric Harrison,Houston Chronicle
A blast from beginning to end and shows first-time director George Clooney is equal parts fearless, brilliant and perhaps daft. But an intriguing daftness it is. Tom Long,Detroit News
Rockwell lets us see all the joy, lust, self-pity, and rage with which Barris gonged himself. Ty Burr,Boston Globe
I have to confess there's nothing very dangerous going on in a comedy that is neither as twistedly weird as your average Gong Show contestant nor as arch as an interview on The Newlywed Game. Terry Lawson,Detroit Free Press
Not only intriguing as a story but great to look at, a marriage of bright pop images from the 1960s and 1970s and dark, cold spyscapes that seem to have wandered in from John le Carre. Roger Ebert,Chicago Sun-Times
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01/23/2003 @ 12:00 AM
Reinforces the talents of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, creator of Adaptation and Being John Malkovich. Philip Wuntch,Dallas Morning News
The movie is compulsively watchable even if it never quite convinces you that it's much more than a fanciful story. Mark Caro,Chicago Tribune
Rockwell is wonderful throughout, capturing Barris' inherent sleaziness and insecurity as well as, well, the vision of the man who could be called the godfather of reality TV. Eleanor Ringel Gillespie,Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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01/17/2003 @ 12:00 AM
Mr. Clooney, Mr. Kaufman and all their collaborators are entitled to take a deep bow for fashioning an engrossing entertainment out of an almost sure-fire prescription for a critical and commercial disaster. Andrew Sarris,New York Observer
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind works best as a rollicking trip through the pop culture of the '60s and '70s. David Edelstein,Slate