Metacritic reviews

A gemlike picture crafted with rare and immaculate precision.

Delicately subversive, hypnotically sardonic, full of terror, banality and wafer-thin lyricism.

That rare cinematic experience-a movie so close to pure perfection that it seems a shame to spoil it by even reading a review beforehand.

Achieves a kind of beauty through its overlaying enigmas, and Carrey.

Hollywood's smartest media satire in years--and a breakthrough for Jim Carrey.

A smart, engaging movie.

Warm, affecting and refreshingly shtickless, he (Carrey) occupies center stage here through sheer, beguiling force of personality.

A cool indictment of television's near-irresistible pandering to the inner peeping tom.

Undeniably provocative and reasonably entertaining, The Truman Show is one of those high-concept movies whose concept is both clever and dumb.

It's unusually provocative and challenging for a Hollywood movie and, surprisingly, allows the audience to piece things together without too much external direction.