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April 28, 2006

When The Truman Show came out in 1998, Jim Carrey was still just a clown. This was his entry into serious acting, a’la Tom Hanks, and it worked.

March 7, 2005

The bulk of the film is what happens in Carrey’s sleeping brain as technicians zap his memories. This is even trippier than it sounds.

November 1, 1998

So in The Truman Show, there’s no Mask. There’s no hiding. His whole life, every second of it, is a TV show. A hit TV show.

August 1, 1996

The Cable Guy is a fiercely crafted dark comedy, a nasty yank at the wires of our video-saturated culture and my favorite film of 1996 thus far.