Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

  • 79% of critics liked it
    (159 reviews)

  • 71% of users liked it
    (56,180 ratings)

Chuck Barris is best known to most Americans as the guy who used to host The Gong Show. He was also the creator and producer of The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and a handful of other successful game shows in the 1960s and 1970s. But was he also a hired killer working with the CIA? That's the… More

R,
Directed By
Written By
Chuck Barris, Charlie Kaufman
Genres
Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy
In Theaters
Aug 15, 2003 Limited
Miramax Films

Critic Reviews

  • , Time Out

    Brimming with slightly self-conscious directorial panache, the movie zips between nearly three decades, fantasy and reality without ever really deciding how seriously it wants to take itself.

  • Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com

    The American film of the season -- and maybe of the year, or the last couple of years...

  • Desson Thomson, Washington Post

    A darkly enjoyable roller-coaster ride.

  • Stephen Hunter, Washington Post

    A picture that is surely one of the oddest ever made.

  • Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

    It's a smart, stylish, eminently watchable movie that nonetheless feels a little empty at the end.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Sam B


    George Clooney clearly had fun directing this movie, as there are all sorts of neat-looking details going on. Unfortunately, Charlie Kaufman's least daring script tries to sculpt the story into the usual psyche-study with unsubtle philosophical subtexts, but those elements sort… More

  • Ross C


    Typical Charlie Kaufman script with our anti-hero protagonist being a very male Jewish American with social issues and a melancholy philosophy on life. Strong cast and cameo line up but both Clooney as the CIA handler and Julia Roberts as the femme fatale character gave rather flat… More

  • familiar s


    Not as impressive as to what I was looking forward to, but worked as a pastime. Nevertheless, its tagline continues to be among my most favorites.

  • Graham J


    Either George Clooney is becoming an awesome director or Steven Soderbergh is ghost directing for him.

  • danny d


    regardless of the truth of the story, this is an excellent film. great performances, great screenplay, and gripping story. i love that clooney loves to put himself in these teerrible mustaches all the time.

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