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Dueling Critics

starstarstarstar Rita Kempley - Washington Post
starstarstarstar Michael Wilmington - Chicago Tribune
starstarstarstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstarstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstarstar Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
starstarstarstar Kenneth Turan - LA Times
starstarstarstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
starstarstarstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstarstarstar Rob Blackwelder - SPLICED Online
starstarstarstar Owen Gleiberman - EW
starstarstarstar Mike Clark - USA Today
starstarstarstar Janet Maslin - NY Times
starstarstarstar Barbara Shulgasser - SF Examiner
starstarstar Robert Horton - Film.com
starstarstar Roger Moore - Winston-Salem Journal

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

- Rita Kempley

This satire promises more than it delivers  . . . It is a truncated movie that needed more detail, more back-story and more wackiness

- Roger Moore

The Truman Show

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Jim Carrey is Truman Burbank – a man whose entire life has been a TV show – and Ed Harris is the TV producer who manipulates Truman's life. Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone. Director: Peter Weir (1998, PG)

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