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"One of the smartest, most inventive movies in memory, it manages to be as endearing as it is provocative," writes Rita Kempley in the Washington Post about The Truman Show. "It will be hard to beat for the summer's best film," writes Peter Howell in the Toronto Star. Janet Maslin's review in the New York Times is likewise full of praise, but, she observes, "hosannahs and cartwheels are over the top" since some of the film's simplistic ideas may be "too slender to sustain a film as ambitious as this." Bob Strauss in the Los Angeles Daily News has no such reservations. "The Truman Show," he writes, "is a marvel of artful, intelligent entertainment. More, it's as complete a movie as it can possibly be." Across town, Kenneth Turan comments in the Los Angeles Times that the film is "so thoughtfully worked out ... that viewers will be justified in feeling that they've never seen anything quite like it." And then there's this hosannah, too long to fit in a movie ad, from Jay Carr in the Boston Globe: "It's the kind of huge instant pop culture myth that comes into being when Hollywood gets the big bang theory right by throwing together a popular star ready to push the envelope and a bold, powerful, reverberant fantasy that nails the Zeitgeist with enough thematic richness to carry us into and beyond the millennium." Whew! |
